Tuesday poem #626 : Larkin M. Higgins : something approximately akin to gliding through

 

 

body of
             & in water
this seaweed                     
                          its stipe & blades
                                                  undulating thallus
amber gloss teardrops
                                    as teeny bulbous floats
air-filled
                 corporeal buoyancy 

 

fronds plait
                     swimmer’s unfurling hair
waves’ surges
                            meld the curling
                                                            jewel-ing her
                                                                                  

                                              holdfast

motion’s murmur
                               & crash
e/motion’s
                    intermittent  spray
ocean froth
                           ascends across rocks

                                                             mist/y

 

 

Larkin M. Higgins is a poet, artist, & professor emerita whose poetic & hybrid works can be found in Diagram, Notre Dame Review, Chant de la Sirène The Journal, Otoliths, elsewhere. Mindmade Books published her Of Traverse and Template (poems and logographic drawings) & with Dusie Kollektiv she has two chapbooks, Of Materials, Implements and c o m b - i n g  m i n e - i n g s . Higgins’ visual poetry is included in the Avant Writing Collection/The Ohio State University Libraries & has been exhibited at Counterpath Gallery (Denver), Otis College of Art & Design, others. She created text-driven performance art for venues such as Highways Performance Space, Counterpath, BC Space, more.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan

 

 

Tuesday poem #625 : Dominic Dulin : Coin Flip

 

can I date myself
online

this paradise
                      containing
                      only
                      one

          type of every bird
          just time
                     said to bird wig

is everyone someone else

paradise paradise paradise paradise
paradise paradise paradise paradise
pair of dice paradice paradise paradise paradise
para se dice paradice paradise

regurgitating names

is everyone someone
else

 

 

Dominic Dulin is a poet and musician out of Cleveland, Ohio. They have had poetry published by Iterant, Yum! Lit, Surreal Poetics, among others.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan

Tuesday poem #624 : Cara Goodwin : First Haircut

 

2020

It’s long now, my hairdresser says, it grew out nicely.
We talk and it’s just like yesterday I was here.
I fall back into her hands. She guides my head
towards the sink and scrubs my scalp. I rise,
towel wrapped around me, sitting up like a child.
Is this how my first haircut felt? How lucky am I
to have made it this far. I don’t know the future,
but when I walk out, I am lighter. The cool air
brushes against my neck and for a sliver in time
I am no longer personally responsible
for the survival of everyone I know and love.
My hair feels clean. The weight is all gone now.

 

 

 

Cara Goodwin’s [photo credit: Curtis Perry] poetry has been published in Bywords, flo., and Room. In 2021, she received an Honourable Mention for the John Newlove Award and was shortlisted for Room's Annual Poetry Prize. In 2023, she earned a second Honourable Mention for the John Newlove Award, this time for her poem "Little Fish". Cara holds a BA (Hons) in Social Communications and a Professional Writing Diploma. She daylights as a speechwriter for the federal government.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan