Aubade for Fernandina Beach
Just let me crawl back inside the nautilus and
hide from sky, from more funerals.
There against its pearled lip
my own wounds are barely visible.
Tayve Neese
Tayve Neese's poetry has appeared in Fourteen Hills, diode, MiPOesias, The Paris Review (online edition), and other journals. Her work has been included in the Best New Poems Online. Blood Fruit ,her full-length collection of poems, was published by David Robert Books in 2015. Neese is the Executive Editor and Co-founder of Trio House Press, an independent, nonprofit press publishing emerging and established American poets. She lives on a barrier island in North Florida.