Six poems from Kathryn Mockler. Please enjoy a review of The Purpose Pitch also featured in this issue. An interview with the poet coming shortly. from The Purpose Pitch SEALED CONTAINERS —So how are we going…
Tag: poetry
FOOD Night is when you look into other people’s kitchens. Down in a first floor apartment lightly set into the frozen ground someone holds a crescent clove of garlic to…
IF If decadent, we were destructive If decaying, a nuisance If we were multitudes with wants and ligaments, we were feral If we undressed, it was to tease If underground,…
SYBILL ELEGIES the city was a bad boyfriend when I was his girl he called me late to ask who I was with when I was his girl he talked…
CATTLE OF THE SUN my ex once lived in a house later dubbed the “chattel ranch” it wasn’t a ranch when he lived there though his…
MOMENTUM EXCHANGE TETHER (A DANCE SCORE) I didn’t see the sky tonight and didn’t think about its legislators. At some point I didn’t need a better view I needed…
HYPERBARREN ONE: the marital bed (if i am a bright housewife) i came to this university in order to be closer to this wooden table …
FACTS ABOUT XANTHIPPE The facts about Xanthippe are scant: her name, her marriage. Her husband’s words are only reported by others, so, really, we can’t be sure of much. Plato’s…
white infinity net Snow touching snow. Petal and rhizome, asterisk, osteocyte. Splitcell and starry matrix of bone a sharp pain behind my left eye insomnia prickles bright as ice cream…
I I’ve been thinking about Dalmatians. I want to say Dalmatian and mean what I say. You might say I am trying to re-live that day in which I saw…
I WANT TO TEXT YOU ABOUT ROBERT DUNCAN Robert Duncan had something to say about psychosis but I have no one to text it to. If I have no one…