Kit Kennedy


from THE MARTHA STORIES, Part 2

37

orange calla shatters window

beauty plural    woman   multiple

mirror   need not be forked 

shift   throw of die,  spread the Tarot, toss a dime


39

faintly vanilla

distance here/there     


40

reoccurring scent is echo 


44


refreshment in drape of trouser 

white shirt   of course   crisp

subtle stripe   sheen

how much adoration can texture accommodate?


48

fruit remembers orchard

pear carries itself

carriage of woman

3 (perhaps 4) INSTANCES OF THE INEXPLICABLE


She watered the cactus every day for a year.


Forgetting the word, she found the missing sock bunched up in the fitted sheet.


Each word suggests a replacement.


To understand, hear what’s not being said.



Kit Kennedy coauthored (with Susan Gangel) Inconvenience, Littoral Press, Berkeley, CA. While Eating Oyster is forthcoming from CLWN WR Press. Work appears in Ambush Review, CLWN WR, Glass, 21 Stars Review, among others. She lives in San Francisco. http://poetrybites.blogspot.com/
 
 
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