IV
And she
would say
that we
couldn’t say
fatigued
that the
environment
was too urgent
for feeling
she said
to assume anything
as a given
was a bad move
she told
us all
about
violent
words
and
the violence
that was
summoned
when they
were said
she praised us
for the right
words
the words
that were
very clear
and we
talked about
language
so that
it matters
to us
but also
made it hard
to think of anything
as true
everything was dialectic
a gray
so much gray
that the gray
became opaqueness
and we
occasionally
found ourselves
too tired
to remember
how to speak
V
To release
life into
the same
realm as
decision
to be a real
person
Katie Ebbitt is a poet/psychotherapist living in NYC. She is the author of the chapbooks ANOTHER LIFE (Counterpath, 2016), Para Ana (Inpatient, 2019), Air Sign (Creative Writing Department, 2024) and HYSTERICAL PREGNANCY (above/ground press, 2024). Fecund, her first full-length book, is currently available for preorder through the Michigan based press, Keith LLC.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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