MY DESERT BE COMING
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I played dead for awhile.
Happily, my theater was small, & no one came looking. In my play I ground every last swing set. I ate the sand and sand became. |
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WORRIED CENTURY
A danger approaches.
The dye clog in the dye
dispenser spout dyes over-big.
A mother raccoon full
with still opposable thumbs
dead — a roadside round on Mother’s Day.
Maybe I am full alone now.
House to no serial hands.
The critter takes its largest sleep in full sun.
I did buy a jade plant.
It is conspicuously alive.
The dye clog in the dye
dispenser spout dyes over-big.
A mother raccoon full
with still opposable thumbs
dead — a roadside round on Mother’s Day.
Maybe I am full alone now.
House to no serial hands.
The critter takes its largest sleep in full sun.
I did buy a jade plant.
It is conspicuously alive.
Knar Gavin attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her poetry has been published in Birdfeast, Poetry, Quarterly West, Print-Oriented Bastards, Booth, BOAAT, and Heavy Feather Review. She writes the occasional folk song and rides bikes with the Team Laser Cats, a Philadelphia amateur women’s cycling squad. Her tumbles can be found at knargavin.tumblr.com.
Kate Greene holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University School of Art. During her graduate studies at Yale, she worked as a Museum Educator at the Yale University Art Gallery and went on to serve as Assistant Curator of Public Education. She has been a guest critic and lecturer at various institutions such as Bard College, Wesleyan University, Amherst College, Drew University, Lesley University College of Art and Design, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited at galleries, museums, and festivals both nationally and internationally. ROMAN NVMERALS published a limited edition book of her series Pyrotechnics in the fall of 2016. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine.