Mar 28
here is a poem I really like
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here is a poem I really like
I am here picking all of the wildflowers.
MK Chavez, from “Little Red Riding Hood/Companion”
Flame that licked girls up and down. The holy spirit can go fuck itself—
MK Chavez, from “Glossolalia,” published in The Wanderer
Art deco arches are designed to hold things up.
Women’s backs are good for that too.
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from “American Pastime” by MK Chavez
#gorgonpoetics
1. Lisa Cattrone, Ginger Ko, Joy Ladin, erica lewis, Raquel Salas-Rivera
2. Shannon Barber, Jennifer Marie Bartlett, Michelle Detorie, Nikki Wallschlaeger
3. Sarah Boyle & MK Chavez
4. Lynne DeSilva-Johnson & Juliette Guilbert
5. Pei-Jung Lee, Nanci Armstrong-Temple, & Melissa Hardie
Failed attempts to shield oneself blossom into deceptions.
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from “The New White House, Finding Myself Among the Ruins” by MK Chavez
And those other females who managed to slip the collar for a moment or two of life were branded “bad.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
The secret nests in my marrow.
At the striptease I appear pirouette and prey.
Later,
I might show you what it means to be consumed.
The pashadom and papacy come to gush and forever satellite spatter,
no matter,
in the end you will find them covered in a fine mist,
tasting of me.
What they do not know—beyond the veil
I lay with the wolf & the wolf is me.
Find me in a forest of tupelo, cypress & black gum, at midrib, lobe, and blade.
Even a leaf can have teeth.
Human acts can be cannibalistic.
I am here picking all of the wildflowers.
Little Red Riding Hood/Companion by MK Chavez
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