Two Visual Poems
CLEAVE FOUND SONNET My debut book is THE FEVER POEMS (2021). Recently read and highly recommend: LET THE WORLD HAVE YOU by Mikko Harvey and FRANK: SONNETS by Dianne Seuss. Currently reading: GUT by Amanda Larson and A SYMMETRY by Ari Banias. https://www.kyliegellatly.com/ https://www.kyliegellatly.com/publications https://www.instagram.com/kyliegolightly/
BUT ALSO THIS: Correspondences for Etel
PART THREE And then came the arrests. Came the tear gas, the percussion grenades, the pepper spray, the wooden bullets, the LRAD declaration of unlawful assembly, the kettling and the batons, came the bicycle scouts having returned from recon to sound the alarm, into the sidestreets, over the fence, be like water, the mad rush […]
Surrender
I am being escorted outside, held upright by two women I hardly know. I can feel their strong hands, their fingers gripping my forearms, gently leading me with soft determination, step after step into the waiting car. It is a cold December night. Under my feet, the stone steps soak up the rainwater, their […]
Angel of Death
FENCE is happy to be collaborating with The Blight Record Project in sharing “Angel of Death” by Brian Evenson. The Blight Record Project produces audio adaptations of contemporary classic short stories printed to vinyl. Each edition is printed in a limited run for rare collectors and audio storytelling fans alike. The debut full length […]
Madre
Madre A woman How many times we fled from the world, How long they burned our hands: Long we served the office of giving birth, cooking dinner, raising beasts. They relegated us to be trophies, in the halls of important men. We bit our tongues in the face of insults, we stayed our fists, before […]
Beached
There’s a picture of myself I’ve remembered wrong for years. In it, I imagined, I am standing next to someone (at a football game, I think) who was never quite more than an acquaintance and putting on an overeager smile. I have shocking streaks of dark purple and deep rich red in the hair just […]
The Listening Rooms
Listen to Sarah Minor read “The Listening Rooms.” 69. The Meaning of Night From her front porch, the woman sees a man walking towards her with an exceptionally tall head. He is wearing a backpack and moving along the sidewalk with a head that is five times the height of a human skull. The woman […]
The Neapolitan Smorfia
I wrote these three poems, and others like them, in collaboration with la smorfia, a southern Italian dream interpretation system. The titles are created using images from recent dreams and the corresponding numbers, as indicated in la smorfia. Instead of using the numbers to play the lotto (the traditional use, which I’ve tried unluckily), the numbers here […]
