Category: Poetry (Page 11 of 15)

You should busy me. Make sure I have something to do
with my hands.  Give me manicured
lawns and lovely buildings,
all of these combined provide
“a special apparatus for
the care of lunacy.” ⁱ

In case you were wondering, I have never
been admitted.  Never quite the right fit
for here or there. … Read more ““The Constant Hum of Elsewhere” by Jen Rouse”

The soft pink

She thought of that smell in the hospital
putting on her nightgown.

Conversations came up
in the mirror

                    and for a moment
she hadn’t wanted to wake.

Silence was spreading;
she drank it.

This is a found poem. Source Material: Rice, Anne. “Chapter 16.” Lasher, Mass Market ed.,… Read more “Poetry by E. Kristin Anderson”

The perspective from below

Sharks attack their prey from underneath,
sometimes at speeds of up to 35 miles an hour.

At first you think why is there
a freight train underwater? And then
the ocean leaks red and you think
Oh.

The kitchen floor attacks its prey
with gravity. It snaps bone
just as easily as a mouth.… Read more “Poetry by Natalie E. Illum”