7 RANDOM FOOTNOTES TO VAN GOGH
I watch the sunflower grows menacing
Sunset frames plum blossoms
Storm tonight litter of petals
Walked through the other side of rain no fish caught
Just like a riddle bowl of lemons & a carafe
Stares down winter spring stares back in her glass
Smelled the fecund in a potted chive told me she loved me
* * * * *
IF THE WORLD WERE PERFECT
you would still be
frightened.
Before you were
in the womb
synapses
of ancestors
quickened
to danger.
Thus
the body
practical
& holy
stores
what it can
never
forget.
~ Kit Kennedy’s work appears in Animus, Bayou, Bombay Gin, Cezanne’s Carrot, The Comstock Review, Karamu, Mannequin Envy, Pearl, Poetry Super Highway, Runes, Saranac Review, Van Gogh’s Ear, and The Wild Goose Poetry Review. She hosts the monthly All Poets Welcome Reading Series in San Francisco and is a columnist (Conversations with...) for Betty’s List (www.bettyslist.com).
No comments:
Post a Comment