Soldiers return to America and face home in this poem and companion flash fiction.
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Tag: poems
Nesting, The Insufficiency of Pillows (poetry): Ep32
“She / nested in / an attic intake vent,” “Last night, I auditioned / seven pillows to play / the part of you.”
“Nesting” was originally published by Heron Tree.
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com.
Four Divorce Poems (poetry): Ep25
Four poems on divorce and separation.
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com.
Halftime Show / David (poems): Ep16
“I respect their art, their years of / gymnastics and dance classes” / “Fifth grade. David Polack called. / He had Playboys ”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Rodeo / Summer 1984 (poems) : Ep12
“The rodeo will return this summer / and I will think about entering that world…” / “They remember the summer / of nineteen eighty-four”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Accords (poem): Ep 7
“August burns in the room, / but I am ice, / words firm, / precise, / clear, and cool.”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Calibrating Beauty (poem): Ep 6
“1. Until third grade when Ms Salonga gave me a poster / of Jaclyn Smith, one of Charlie’s Angels, I believed my mom— / brunette, tall, and five years younger than Kelly Garrett—”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
