POETRY

“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
—Rita Dove
Pit Stop in Kansas

we drove on through
the blue seal of morning as the turbines
turned and winked out their hearts

REVENGE SCENE

Okay, picture this: We’re in an elevator. The elevator shuts down. It doesn’t matter where we’re going, only that we’re alone.

A Way of Seeing

Just starlight and some small scribbling across vinyl.

oh Manifesto

The collective
failure
of ethical standards

appetites

you quit wearing pants
loaf around your yard
in hole-nipped panties

heavy rain
The Plot

Long after midnight, we’re talking about our first time

The River

I myself should never have been born

Black Ghosts of Ponderosa on a Silhouette of Hill

Even as the sun warms the concrete
the long nights’ sensual cold lingers in my clothes.

love poem with dead leaves & color

I would always rather be happy than
dignified. Rather held than held
in awe.

painting of apple and grapes
Feast Of

anger, like you can sink teeth into, candy apple

An Interview with Dylan Krieger

Dylan Krieger’s poetry is unflinching, grotesque, and beautiful. Her work tackles trauma, wrestles authority, and is a decadent sonic feast.

I Garden at the Edge of Autumn

There is so little left of the tomato plants.

Condolences

my friends’ fathers are
dropping
I mean dying
like flies

necromancer woman, witch woman

In my universe, my arm carries a heart and flowers,
my back a misguided quote

Good Driver

Lights on the dashboard spell out
“You still can’t kiss me”

Soft Porn and Cuban Pine

It recommended
soft porn, as gentle prodding and petting parent
to parent might calm and soothe the kid.

The love of my life moved from portland to new england

He has stories that I am not in
anymore. It’s healed this way.

Aging Punks

Every so often, they add a tattoo
in honor of some long-forgotten love.

Letter To a Young Poet

Do not say anything anybody else has said ever. Things are not “bleached by sun.”

Unerased | Steep Steps

My grandmother asked, “Does it feel like being widowed?”