she found him laying, curled upon his ownfragmented bits -- protestanting loneliness, denying denyinga conspiracy of melted, mutedfeeling -- she said i know, you are a warm bodyin the morning, your sadness adrift and pulled back, tidebefore the shores, before the sun. she said i have worn down porn into cortisol paths and I don't… Continue reading poem: sensual objects, part two
Author: elizabeth claire
poetry for the desperate and the romantic. university student, bored out of her mind.
poem: (trying) to read at work
boy on the pink-red diving board -- vile men lined up in chairs --"has it gotten any better up here?"we are not past the point of logical digression; at leastwe are not in the rubix-cubicle-grey. changing the ebookinterface to make Difference (knowledge is an emptyhouse)-- i go on long walks afterwork, through the work sunshine… Continue reading poem: (trying) to read at work
poem: vainglory
as one forgettable moment he was instead boxed upand carried into the currents of many weeks, in which the fear of first lovehad me swept like a rag alongthe Mormon suburban streets, at dusk, my heart at cardio-tempo, what if what if what -- he is a rebound, I am wicked. the quickness kept the… Continue reading poem: vainglory
poem: the sensual object as art rather than self-identification
beneath, inside, around her teeth - release a bloody sphere. how to interact with the object of desire, with sex as containedbut extraneous feeling, without putting it backonto the self. anon/ette, she watches it. the half of the film, grafted onto sleepy haze, becomesa tainted sunshine thing, carried aroundfor its potential - scraped away its… Continue reading poem: the sensual object as art rather than self-identification
poem: dates as sugar substitute
the mimed inadequacy - I would rather my motherheave me over the hilt. how much is forgiven - while I, in chosen purgatory, readdirty books - in the spirit of the literary and otherself-justifying ghouls. is the beauty the text itselfor the object the text makes andsurrounds - does one eclipse the other. how did… Continue reading poem: dates as sugar substitute
poem: Ash Wednesday
recovered anomaly, the zine has never been moredead. histrionic contrarian - she has recently been upsetwhenever she is located, discovered,identified. high in neuroticism and agreeableness - I am gladi do not live inside your head. we have all beenoverexposed to personality, if i am differentI am cursed - if i am the same - i… Continue reading poem: Ash Wednesday
poem: bad riddance
she is beautiful and so I don't believe that shehas suffered. now old memories chase me in suddensmacking throat-openers, like red orangeson a table, in a blue bowl -- as I am between ruins. like an old woman, I pick themapart, blood stains under my tongue. now, writing, nothing comes to me to be described:… Continue reading poem: bad riddance
poem: twenty-twenty-four
in the space of the dream i am literate - he holds my head in his hands and wedance. the book coming down like rainstormand my vulva washed out. when i am pregnant, i will finally finish something, somethinglong and important. i will say something about itand the baby will laugh.
poem: song lyrics
i listened to marina & the diamonds before, in frosted hell, i found the corresponding subculture -- i curled in the in-betweensmall bed, not in a room but a corridor and you knowi think you could be right that purgatory isphenomenological or at least our concept of it, is -- anyway i was stripped out to… Continue reading poem: song lyrics
poem: he likely would have found me by chance and declared me a talented writer
her farce was weirdly unenviable; she said -- this man, he would find little savior/fellow strugglerfellow bearer of what is what isand then (camera wink) isnt it so ironic to askwhat is, when we are standing here, and weknow. he would find this inme. i write my manifesto, i slug along to meetings with nothing… Continue reading poem: he likely would have found me by chance and declared me a talented writer
the last pavilion 