#permanent volta

[lifeinpoetry]

I save you the last slice of my orange I know we will need to eat more soon look at how my worlds want your worlds look at our worlds wanting other worlds porous the mist we love by

— Rosie Stockton, from “Permanent Volta,” Permanent Volta

[unouroborize]

Cast me as shadow, / and I want to feel each ray. / Give me your whole war.

Rosie Stockton, “Ditch Sestina,” Permanent Volta

[lifeinpoetry]

I miss you the most the moment before we / part all desire mimics that brink

— Rosie Stockton, from “Material Memory,” Permanent Volta

[lifeinpoetry]

But now it’s your turn. Tell me what unthinkable blaze / you miss me like.

— Rosie Stockton, from “Enfance V,” Permanent Volta

[lifeinpoetry]

a sadness is stalking me / it’s the shape  of a chorus   its glitchy / double vision gone when you look at it

— Rosie Stockton, from “Caesura Fountain,” Permanent Volta

[lifeinpoetry]

It’s in this state that I can’t remember what birds or rivers are. Can’t change absence to presence Just like that I feel like shit I’m ending this poem now, yes it’s over a hungry ghost, nothing has changed.

— Rosie Stockton, from “Enfance IV,” Permanent Volta

[lifeinpoetry]

violent— to be written and I resist— I take apart my body to let my being be a little more

— Rosie Stockton, from “Permanent Volta,” Permanent Volta

[lifeinpoetry]

O mother there is a violence in naming in showing up to say can we love with inadequate politics? apart and pained?

— Rosie Stockton, from “Hush Little Baby / Don’t Say a Word,” Permanent Volta