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…
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…
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 …
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…