poetry by august edwards

Pygmalion’s Trials

wax
ring, wax & cravings.
wax wrung over iron,
wax   nostalgia shavings.
sprinkled wax shavings.
waning        size    of   waxed  heart,
wax shavings    over wet    heart  
resistant resilience, slipping. 
waxing abandon.
waxing ache
wax shavings, pooling, wringing,
old wax shell.
wet puddle under heart, 
hot iron crackling water
endangered shavings
wringing heart over iron
puddlewax. 
clay enclosed
finished wax.

wretched fetter
I’m stonemade.

August Edwards is primarily a nonfiction writer currently based in the Bay Area, where she is pursuing her MFA at San Francisco State University. There, she's a staff editor at Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. She runs the music blog Albuquerque Green Room, which features independent artists local to New Mexico as well as California, Connecticut, Israel—really, anywhere where music is made.