POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
The poetry of Brian S. Ellis unravels, inverts, investigates, and complicates. His poems are radical koans and invitations to forego common narratives.
Any still figure at mid-late evening, when the long shadows make even crumbs appear arranged like furniture.
We found in his suitcase T-shirts, his siddur, gifts he bought for his grandchildren…
Empty vessels
make the most sound, I think,
as you rip the fairy lights off the handrail.
and apples, mackintosh mostly, but any kind left in The Pub
at the Assisted Living Place
In my universe, my arm carries a heart and flowers,
my back a misguided quote
Yes I am guilty, I’m guilty. A sin was desirable then.
Bring the dancer back to the stalks.
I want to roll in this moment until I become its vocabulary
until I smell like the bones
until I am its echo…
Should have found a job by now; should have slept in the night;
should have boiled old coffee before noon.
Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.
the strands of your hair on the bathroom tiles aren’t sketching defeat. that’s you spitting disease in the face with another day you’ve woken up to.
