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'INDISCRETION OF THE AMERICAN WIFE,' 1954
by Suzanne Frischkorn

If my husband would shut up
I could be alone
with my "Red River" cowboy

before the broken nose,
the crushed cheekbone.
Before Liz Taylor

pulled broken teeth
from his mouth
and saved his life.

My husband caught
in a tripwire of technique
turns on the light;

but I like candlelight
it allows me to conjure
Montgomery Clift, "I Confess,"

even after the head-on collision -- yes,
with severed nerves
and lopsided features.

Suzanne Frischkorn's poetry appears in numerous journals and anthologies. Recent publications include In Posse Review, Mangrove, Wisconsin Review, Paterson Literary Review, Exquisite Corpse, and The Pedestal Magazine. A Finalist in the 2001 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, she is author of The Tactile Sense, (Alpha Beat Press, 1996) and Exhale, (Scandinavian Obliterati Press, 2000). She is also associate editor of Samsära Quarterly. Her book Limited Range of Motion, is forthcoming from Lords of Language Press in 2002.