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Montreux Rotholtz is the author of Unmark, selected by Mary Szybist as the winner of the 2015 Burnside Review Press Book Award. Her poems appear in Fence, jubilat, Lana Turner, PEN Poetry Series, Prelude and elsewhere. She lives in Seattle.
Poetry
No man was ever buried by the desert.
It takes years to cover a dead camel.
Men rest on top like a crust, bones
in their biplanes, a red and white stripe
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