Tuesday poem #615 : Maria Hardin : Devotion IV

 

 

be your own pony
your own mother
birth a world without fathers
lose yourself in the holy ghost

the cosmos is withdrawing
but we just want to keep on touching

as longing impregnates
the soil
the humidity
our lungs

as wild brains lag
as wild horses cease to exist

 

 

 

Maria Hardin is a Swedish-American artist and bilingual poet based in Stockholm. She is the author of Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether (Action Books) and Sprawl Coquette (Creative Writing Department). Maria’s work has been exhibited across Scandinavia and her writing has appeared in American Chordata, Burning House Press, Denver Quarterly, Fanzine, Gutter, LIGEIA Magazine, SLFFCK, Spam Zine, Spectra Poetry, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. She can be found at mariaology.com.

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Tuesday poem #614 : Catriona Strang : Cattle, sheep, crops, money

 

It’s been the ruttiest
week, all peaky looking
rust bins and how did I even
get here, as the man with the hip
flask barges over and links arms
with global trade? What if jute sang, or
cotton or iron, ships or steel, a defence
unpicked by a chip just drunk enough
to be fierce in this communal
game played in a rebel’s self-
washed kit now glorified by
empire’s trade in myth, prejudice
and illusion – nought’s had, all’s
spent – so we flew into
our new enemy, at Brockton Oval as at
Stirling Bridge, our basket-weave
adaptation taking shape
on the fly: tackle him low!

 

 

 

A founding member of the Institute for Domestic Research, Catriona Strang is the author of Low Fancy, Corked, Reveries of a Solitary Biker, and Unfuckable Lardass and co-author of Busted, Cold Trip, and Light Sweet Crude with the late Nancy Shaw, whose selected works, The Gorge, she edited. A new chapbook appears next week with above/ground press.

She frequently collaborates with composer Jacqueline Leggatt, and lives with her two grown kids on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ Lands. She is recovering from decades of caring labour.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan