POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
I want to roll in this moment until I become its vocabulary
until I smell like the bones
until I am its echo…
and then her eyes fully opened — blazed through with strands of mud
I count my homes—
those of my scattered youth
the sanctuary of our young family
the intermittent rest stops
of apartments and vacations.
I imagine that undressing a color, though, would be so much like peeling a memory away from the grey and the white matter of your brain.
you know that
baby swallows make silver ripples
in wild rivers to court reeds?
Millions of Americans have been affected by identity theft. It’s probably the greenhouse gases.
Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.
I slumped in front of a massive desk, a passive patient corroded with failure and dread.
