Kristen dies suddenly on a Sunday night. We hear about it on Monday when her younger sister Jeannie comes in for dialysis, but Kristen doesn’t. Kristen was eight-years-old and shared a genetic defect with Jeannie. Both girls require dialysis and need kidney transplants. Transplants are costly, even with insurance, so their parents held a fundraising […]
A Portfolio of Writing by Professional Nurses
Above: Diane Kraynak, R.N. A PORTFOLIO OF WRITING BY NURSES: Tina Carlson • KD Seluja • Sally Helmi • Christine Riley • Jane Slemon • Renata Bubadué • Diane Kraynak • Geraldine Gorman • Charles March III • Mary Ann Thomas • Sarah Comey Cluff • Brenda Beardsley • Shirley Stephenson • Nicole Aicher • […]
A Rusted Birdcage in an Otherwise Empty Field: Videopoem and Process Notes
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/A-Rusted-Birdcage-in-An-Otherwise-Empty-Field.mp4 Process Notes “In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown in it.” ― Edmond Jabès I have written elsewhere about the videopoetry form: its potential to reconnect poetry back to the body & the breath, and the ways […]
Three Poems from Mare’s Nest
https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Last-Porch-Sit.mp3 Click play to listen to Holly read her poems to you The Last Porch Sit Chair They’re not bedsores if it’s not a bed Spoonfed I feel dolled & nightmare about a piebald suit of old curtains I Dread The afterparts When they’ll weep how good I was Undecorated […]
Rasputin
i may have a hog body but at least i’m a strong-willed pig [ !!!! ] | if u see someone w/ the exact same face kill them | for instance kirsten dunst | lube via lather—intimacy via stand-in—ice floe via polar bears | contused—confused [ ???? ]—how odd to see on the street—blossoming w/ […]
Caddy
Starla and Ashley were in the back seat of the Bronco II talking to each other. Starla who is Blackfeet was talking to my niece and daughter Ashley Rose who is Salish and Irish and also Chicana. Starla said “Oooks! Did you see that caddy purple jacket Sheila had on? She was standing by the […]
Faithful Interpretations of Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood for Love
1. CHOW Did someone enter my room? LANDLORD No. CHOW No? I have lost something. LANDLORD What have you lost? Chow Mo-wan and his colleague Zhou Bing at a restaurant. CHOW   ZHOU CHOW   ZHOU CHOW ZHOU   CHOW In the past, the […]
DISINTEGRATION F_ACE
DISINTEGRATION F_ACE
All revolutionary movements create their own ways of [facing]. —Sheila Rowbotham A face is made up. The end. + A face begins in reverse. A face equals an approximate half-second. A face looks to be ever on the edge of death, ha. A face met repeatedly reforms itself into visual static. The face composed […]
“So-called Sappho” and Other Poems
“So-called Sappho” Halfway to the opulent hotel for his friends’ wedding, Not Baby, who can’t tell if the engineer’s attracted to her despite the scar or if desire veils it the way daisies—or any leggy wildflower—will a rut, nearly missed the enormous yellow crane that had fished a boat from the river and left it […]