SKELETON

Deborah Landau

Sugar withdrawal symptoms turn out to be, what, exactly—keto flu, depression,

killer headaches and cravings (cravings) (cravings)

endorphins how I long for you—    longing, that’s a sugar and

love is, morning sun too, especially through French windows and

earth is a sugar while it still greens around us. What else sweetens? not the internet not

tweets, except maybe Alex’s which are really poems in tweet’s clothing, definitely not

one (a tweet) from the president        yet iced with the season’s first

narcissus blooms this day & somehow it’s still a thrill to wake, warmbodied alive.

Deborah Landau is the author of five books, including Skeletons. She is a professor and director of the NYU Creative Writing Program.
Originally published:
September 1, 2022

Featured

10 Ways Ms., Sassy, and Jezebel Changed Your Life!

How contradiction drove fifty years of feminist media
Maggie Doherty

How Emily Wilson Reimagined Homer

Her boldly innovative translation of the Iliad is an epic for our time
Emily Greenwood

In the Shallows

Why do public intellectuals condescend to their readers?
Becca Rothfeld

You Might Also Like

SKELETON

Deborah Landau

SKELETON

Deborah Landau


Subscribe

New perspectives, enduring writing. Join a conversation 200 years in the making. Subscribe to our print journal and receive four beautiful issues per year.
Subscribe