Karissa Morton & Justin Carter
#9 Nick Foles, QB
I.
O, Oakland, you share
your zeal. A full bird
skull you are―
II.
Please let this grow familiar.
III.
What I would venture:
empty cannon balls,
the ribbon-song
of dusk wailing against
my cheeks.
IV.
To meet the gatekeepers,
you must gild your hands against
the slip of latticed wings
V.
To be obsessed, bewildered
by the shipwreck
of the singular―
I went to the promised land
& forgot about it.
VI.
There’ll be one big
spotlight in the mail
but then the bye week,
the bench―
VII.
To share (v)―
1. a grass-stained pedestal
2. a final rewriting of the book
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Italicized lines borrowed from George Oppen’s “On Being Numerous”
Karissa Morton is from Des Moines, Iowa, & is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. She edits Revolution House Magazine, writes for American Microreviews & Interviews, & co-runs Poets on Sports. Her recent work appears in The Paris-American, Guernica, Indiana Review, & Sonora Review, among other places. She lives at @ckstarling & karissamorton.wordpress.com
Justin Carter is the co-editor of Banango Street. The winner of the 2014 Sonora Review prize, his recent poems appear in Birdfeast, The Collagist, Hobart, & Ninth Letter. He internets at justinrcarter.tumblr.com
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I.
O, Oakland, you share
your zeal. A full bird
skull you are―
II.
Please let this grow familiar.
III.
What I would venture:
empty cannon balls,
the ribbon-song
of dusk wailing against
my cheeks.
IV.
To meet the gatekeepers,
you must gild your hands against
the slip of latticed wings
V.
To be obsessed, bewildered
by the shipwreck
of the singular―
I went to the promised land
& forgot about it.
VI.
There’ll be one big
spotlight in the mail
but then the bye week,
the bench―
VII.
To share (v)―
1. a grass-stained pedestal
2. a final rewriting of the book
___________________________________
Italicized lines borrowed from George Oppen’s “On Being Numerous”
Karissa Morton is from Des Moines, Iowa, & is currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati. She edits Revolution House Magazine, writes for American Microreviews & Interviews, & co-runs Poets on Sports. Her recent work appears in The Paris-American, Guernica, Indiana Review, & Sonora Review, among other places. She lives at @ckstarling & karissamorton.wordpress.com
Justin Carter is the co-editor of Banango Street. The winner of the 2014 Sonora Review prize, his recent poems appear in Birdfeast, The Collagist, Hobart, & Ninth Letter. He internets at justinrcarter.tumblr.com
Return to July 2014 Edition