HOLDING THE LOOSE BONES CLOSE My mother the morning of her surgery lies in a room where I am not The angelbones her hair is tied fraying in hospital…
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Janice Lee & Andrea Quaid In one sense, the work featured in Plant Poetics and Beyond comes from the June 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Conference…
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fulfilling forgiveness as a skyline embodying , embroidering , holding patterns caused by a lifetime of regretting an accidental act of killing . you will have caused it to happen…
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Action In The Orchards by Fred Schmalz 144 pages – Nightboat Books AFTER ETEL ADNAN I would like to wander amid the heavens’ explosions a mountainous country’s nomadic art immaterial…
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Text version of visual poem: She he he she His or hers hers or his Their they’re plural duh They one? One they would be She or he or his…
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once upon a time i was like you; a white protein bag; a wrinkled sack of bowels and bones a machine manufacturing miniature machines every nine months i was wife…
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Non-anatomical (the extra part of the day) . . . no origin to a life? Can only be necessary and incorrect? Waiting in a group. For? Picturing. Picturing. I met…
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* * * When I Was a Bird I had the smallest bones I could breaststroke on the smooth back of evening I had no particular anger Sometimes I made…
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Viraha There was no country home enough to collect every childhood I had to strip off. Just the chatter of breeze puzzling the quiet rajnigandha. An early knowledge…
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— For Sam Draemon Sleep Out Loud Not twins Exhaustion & Sleep Come birds — land on my arm — and show me the rest of flight …
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Scattering the Locks I. She’s humming on the porch swing: Some glad morning when this life is o’er, I’ll Fly Away Her hair hangs like a long dark mystery waist…
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Zunzún Disambiguation I caught a glimpse of tremulous wings beside the straggling Rose of Sharon— long tiny bill wide purple bloom and my full hands cupping dripping eggshells in slow…
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To start this series I’m thinking of a quote from an interview with the writer Etel Adnan: “… [images] they are pure feeling. They’re like something that calls you through…
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‘Vaginismus’, now termed ‘Genito-Pelvic Pain or Penetration Disorder’, is the involuntary contraction of the pelvic floor muscles. The tight muscle contractions makes coitus, and gynaecological examinations, difficult or impossible. The cause…