13469760.0025.119Absinthe2377-3456Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan LibraryAnn Arbor, MI13469760.0025.119http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.13469760.0025.119ArticleFrom Ouse(poetry)Vidal-Conte MireiaHall María Cristina17092018251Barings // Bearings: Contemporary Women's Writing in Catalan2018This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. Please contact mpub-help@umich.edu to use this work in a way not covered by the license. not one day nor ten would sate the Ouse but twenty-one days counting stones Virginia of the waters scars of our dread. mother ushers the water seventy years of fright beauty, yes! the drowning cry of a nonliably bodied blackberry bush. The quiet of all that was written without language. ROSA FONT you shell almonds skin stunned fish bursting mouthfuls of cherry a language sheared like thistle bloom dignifying other rivers. you’re two by the book’s end abandoned at intermission unable to wolf it down short of means and faith   as was she you walk away with this failed Ouse in your pocket.