Cat Richardson
Oyster scrap
Thin and lurid on the tongue.
Ragged leafscuttle of gray November―
the empty street waits. Shutterclack. Brine
and lurid on the tongue with lemon. Beardburn
and Flemish painters. Sun below skyline, sun
bellows brackish. Salt and pepper on lips
and butter. And butter. Lush slip
of fingers lurid on the tongue.
Lost Morning
There’s something about your face today―
cold embers, ash troubled by the breeze.
When I tried to warm you, you said no,
it was time to listen to your own echoes,
and you left to take a walk.
The more I think of you, the more this train
smells like horses, the slower it creeps along
dragging your absence. What if I’m a blink.
What if you never come back. The morning
rests on my forehead, doesn’t draw out
this fever.
Cat Richardson’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, elimae, Lungfull! Magazine, and The Golden Key. Her prose has appeared in Pleiades, and Poets & Writers. She is an editor at Phantom Limb Press and managing editor of Bodega (www.bodegamag.com)
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Thin and lurid on the tongue.
Ragged leafscuttle of gray November―
the empty street waits. Shutterclack. Brine
and lurid on the tongue with lemon. Beardburn
and Flemish painters. Sun below skyline, sun
bellows brackish. Salt and pepper on lips
and butter. And butter. Lush slip
of fingers lurid on the tongue.
Lost Morning
There’s something about your face today―
cold embers, ash troubled by the breeze.
When I tried to warm you, you said no,
it was time to listen to your own echoes,
and you left to take a walk.
The more I think of you, the more this train
smells like horses, the slower it creeps along
dragging your absence. What if I’m a blink.
What if you never come back. The morning
rests on my forehead, doesn’t draw out
this fever.
Cat Richardson’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Tin House, elimae, Lungfull! Magazine, and The Golden Key. Her prose has appeared in Pleiades, and Poets & Writers. She is an editor at Phantom Limb Press and managing editor of Bodega (www.bodegamag.com)
Return to March 2013 Edition