Thanks to the efforts & magic of poet & publishing maven Susana Gardner, the fifth & final Dusie Kollektiv chapbook project is now available online for free download here.
Featuring new work by dozens of lovelies, including: William Allegrezza, Juliet Cook, Arielle Guy, Jen Hofer, Mark Lamoureux, & Kaia Sand, (& a collaborative pas de deux between me & Kirsten Kaschock). Go. Read.
IX. A Part of This World, and a World of Its Own
It was time as a color, or my
life, in miniature.
It was sunrise & my feet got wet
in the dew. It was all the moon
did, it was my hair, full
of secrets.
A pocketful of frogs, the girl who
gave birth to rabbits, the happiest
crocodile, & party hats for all.
Poetry, particularly in-progress, or tracking process.
Prose, which is what my poetry sounds like sometimes (or vice-versa).
Things I find intrinsic to writing, or to what I’m writing now.
Things I currently find intrinsic to writing include knitting (which calms my head, like klonopin in craft-form) & bread (which requires patience & visceral interaction), & soup (the making of which also calms my head, but is far more forgiving than bread & amenable to experimentation). So maybe sometimes this will be about knitting, &/or bread &/or soup.
Tonight I am knitting fingerless mitts because enclosed spaces make my fingers vaguely claustrophobic.
Tonight’s bread is white/wheat/rye, & cracked from rising, & looks vaguely like Venus of Willendorf.
Tonight’s soup is roasted onions & garlic & red cabbage & potatoes, which is nicer than it sounds.
Hello.
