Elise Legendre read these 3 poems, an Italian Sonnet and an English Sonnet, and Sapphic Stanzas, at the Boston Intercollegiate Poetry Festival.

I begin with just a flash
And I’m reminded and set
The smell of northern wood
and gasoline
Your peaceful air passes through me ...

Six months of living together, six empty Corona bottles consoling the counter,
he paid me back for my portion of the round cherry dining table.

I packed two forks, three glasses
five apartments in four days, rode the worn-out passenger seat

alongside the realtor, city shivering in concrete ...