Sandrine Letellier
THE TONALITY OF ALL THINGS
I wish I could visit you all
in your shoeboxes.
Half through the earth,
rooftops hurling from the sky.
We could peel clementines
and crack our knuckles,
let lightbulbs thrum
at the back of our throats.
The light would go out
but our soft aches fracture
into smog.
See how I hear music
but never the mirth of my bones.
SENECA
Green satin sheets
something about
slipping into a saturated forest
at dusk
in our aquamarine flesh
tunnels.
Something about
my red mouth
isn’t it always
a wolfish sheep in disguise.
Something about
a raven with a saxophone
stuck in my teeth.
A line you never answer
but you are here in my hair
A nest / a murder scene
of my own volition.
I want you don’t I always
want you
don’t I always
want something.
Sandrine Letellier finds inspiration in nature, music, and visual arts. From Montreal, her work has been published in Antiphony, Sontag Mag, Shadow and Sax, Sky Island journal, Wild Roof journal, Querencia Press, Bitter Melon Review and others. Her chapbook Urchin was released in 2025 and her chapbook Splay is forthcoming in 2026 (Shadow and Sax Press). She is the founder and EIC of Azarão Lit Journal and an associate editor at Shadow and Sax.
Banner Art:
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Schlemihl’s Encounter with the Shadow, 1915, Städel Museum
