Erin Radcliffe
Name-Word
The irregardless ocean
was hardly something captivating
instead like
reduct
reddy bird
great immense
The mushmelon
of childhood
not of musk
or of mush
but parasitic sound
Fog Grass
Body naked and my own
here are water−millions
for this mending hand
the musicianer and old speaker
are ear−string, sound as mushrats
Feed them mutton corn
and high tones
bait them with angleworms
and always ago
for there is the spare road
upon which
they are nail−sick and plow boned
Barefoot Bread
Our superstition of unwashing
sheds mortar
beneath the line of visible birds
that is both mattock and mass dark
we are on hands
pime−blank
this bedplace thin as bavins
when the phoby−cat whines:
breaking our better would
if only to beat the stir
Originally from Indiana, Erin Radcliffe now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Smartish Pace, Nashville Review, Third Wednesday, and The Los Angeles Review. A collection of her poems, Station of Rain, is forthcoming as a chapbook from dancing girl press.
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The irregardless ocean
was hardly something captivating
instead like
reduct
reddy bird
great immense
The mushmelon
of childhood
not of musk
or of mush
but parasitic sound
Fog Grass
Body naked and my own
here are water−millions
for this mending hand
the musicianer and old speaker
are ear−string, sound as mushrats
Feed them mutton corn
and high tones
bait them with angleworms
and always ago
for there is the spare road
upon which
they are nail−sick and plow boned
Barefoot Bread
Our superstition of unwashing
sheds mortar
beneath the line of visible birds
that is both mattock and mass dark
we are on hands
pime−blank
this bedplace thin as bavins
when the phoby−cat whines:
breaking our better would
if only to beat the stir
Originally from Indiana, Erin Radcliffe now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Smartish Pace, Nashville Review, Third Wednesday, and The Los Angeles Review. A collection of her poems, Station of Rain, is forthcoming as a chapbook from dancing girl press.
Return to March 2013 Edition
