A POEM
am
a feminine?
[violence]
part
blossoming
too roughly
apart
and press
so painfully
urgent
set assail
a bottle to
never notice
and
fetish
sloppy
violence
bursting through
and
sleeping
tingling at
fingers gently upon
swollen,
pregnant lips
pressed
a body
[structure]
a body
pressed
a body
paper
ripe text
teasing slowly
drop
suspended
[temporal]
suspended over
open
gaping
action
hits
an eyelids
downlooking
unlooking
/sound
unflinching
is reflection?
refraction?
is no real
spectrum
light upon
the wall
behind
an ivory
unlooking
turned from
a fountain
not to kill it
or die within
the depths of
sinker
cast at
and only
skipping
overhead
bounce off
pavement
surface of a
water-
solid and
unquenchable
only
in sips
(tish)
tips in a
pool
and out again
softly
more complication
gaze in
absorbed [ignored]
pressure
‘til bursts
shrapnel teeth
‘til gazing
knows . . .
knows, knows
only knows
does
grace himself
presence
of a fur
on end
tippy peek
perfection
an art in
pen-
blue
face
a
suspended
moment
face
in
suspended
movement
rests
shadow
little illumination
upon a face
lines
geography
always [re]rivering
stories
becomes –ify:
Thing,
myth
to mere
body
=
purple lights
upon
as seen in
eye
upon
page
upon
page
upon
[missing]
eye
seen that
isolation
cannot
be any
but those
who
possess
‘twas not
the first time,
but
minds
alone
in
space
disconnect
words of-
mouth
but eyes
alone
speak
quite
loudly
to and fro
as children
tag violent
and escape
and escapes
failure of
bodies to
speak
and escapes
shivers
spine
a dirty
yellow
body
as an animal’s
theory-
disguise
disk-eyes wide
peony
to dark
mysterious
mind-
cave
maelstrom into
obsessing over
dribblings of
too sane
control [suave]
dribblings of
jawbone foam
miracle into
[mis-]paper
control
peak at
possession/
possessive-
tense
passion,
“mine”
field-
“mine”
ripe to harvest
and
own
ripe to press
finger in
and
own
more
last-name
ownings
standardize
usual face
to read
in
habit
fit
rubbing
mind[s] glisten
minerals
in
rubbing
hands
against
satin
against
glue
against
wood
against
puddling
situation
makes a
an entire
explosion
to breathe in
images
enfolding myst-
permutation
and adherence
figure folded
over mineral
external +
looping
remembers only
mistakes
/a word/
wording
sits in an order
un-
and in
resting
always to
influence
an order
where sits a face
category
and word
hidden
finds place
only
on a tongue
smoothly
uttering
juices of
living
sensuality
fit pleasantly
a mind to
flower
press tongue-in
and absorb
wring-out
and finally
[re]read
currently studies poetics and philosophy at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She has experimented with art of all forms, and her poetry has appeared in the 2008 issue of Evergreen’s literary journal, Slightly West, as well as several independently circulated journals and projects. She has read for the NAKeD PUPPeTS performance of “HADeS,” has participated in Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater, reading from the piece “Pig Angels of the Americlypse,” and has also read at PRESS Cross-Cultural Literary Conference 2008 in Olympia. She additionally works as the Adaptive Technologies Lead at the college, managing the transcription of texts into alternative formats for student accessibility.