POETRY
“Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”
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 have an axe
with hearts gashed
I buy too much, for someone of my stature.
could pawn a skinny metaphor to purchase a plump skin.
its reputed in our lineage— to daydream a life that shreds our pockets.
We found in his suitcase T-shirts, his siddur, gifts he bought for his grandchildren…
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.
my love is a glass shard, a knife made of madness and moonlight,
and there are already way too many fragments in this house
and then her eyes fully opened — blazed through with strands of mud
and apples, mackintosh mostly, but any kind left in The Pub
at the Assisted Living Place