Afternoon Intimacy by Anna Veprinska

March 4, 2022
Poem name: Afternoon Intimacy Poet name: Anna Veprinska Poem begins: Wombed in this apartment, jade plant and honeyed camomile, book-nudged, I am sweeping. The couple one floor below welcomes my caress. End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Anna Veprinska Previously published in Spirit-clenched (Gap Riot Press, 2020). Anna Veprinska is a poet, scholar, and immigrant-settler living in the greater Toronto (Tkaronto) area. She has published the books Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), which received Honourable Mention in the MSA First Book Award, and Sew with Butterflies: poems (Steel Bananas, 2014). She has also published the poetry chapbook Spirit-clenched (Gap Riot Press, 2020).