Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman is a Piltdown Review Featured Poet for July 2018. Her most recent book is Kafka’s Shadow (Deerbrook Editions, 2017). She is the recipient of a Eric Mathieu King Fund Award from the Academy of American Poets, and an Artist Trust GAP grant. Her work has appeared in Shenandoah, Cimarron Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. Visit judithskillman.com or facebook.com/judith.skillman.
Bric-a-Brac
Outside, the barber pole, a swirl of symbolic spirals, and walk upstairs, touching, as you go, the espagnolette.
Poultry Shears
Metal handles, large, the scissor for a thigh or a wing, when feathers flew up, sank like wishes, settled on the dirty floors.
