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
