[obscenity for the advancement of poetry #6]

those motherfuckers only take indecent photographs of ice blinks.

there’s a stitch in my rib it is mobile it has been there for a week it is hard not to lie
down with a stitch / secure all the rooms / sleep in front of the closet and ignore wind

erasure is synaptic gesture / when i die i hope it will not be soon and not from
cancer / someone tried to kill her / he bought guns and video

taped himself making a bomb mailer for her / my wash basin is covered with toothpaste
which is unfortunate because otherwise it is such a lovely, green color / was it the right

decision? enraging white house canines / pasture / if i listened
maybe / but we are still manipulating you and squaring off / o maybe they will take a

cross-section of my lung freeze half then sputter off OFF: i am a soldier in my
own military / in my house the war is always on/ more details/ more

loosen up ARMY / you disabled authors my law school was painful and grotesque so i
returned to the high desert where / ALLEGEDLY // what would

egedly mean / that city was poison and i’ve done what i can do to / escape you it must be
legitimized // it is taking so long / a file that is corrupted / our name LEXICON/

i have a virus in spanish we are cult-cult-cultural peoples / billy lives in prague /
my computer’s bass is electric AND fretless

 


kathryn l. pringle is an American poet living in Oakland, Ca. She is the author of fault tree (winner of Omindawn’s 1st/2nd book prize selected by CD Wright), RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY (Factory School 2009) and two chapbooks: The Stills (Duration Press) and Temper and Felicity are lovers (TAXT). Her work can also be found in the anthology Conversations at the Wartime Cafe: A Decade of War (Conversations at the Wartime Cafe Press/ WODV Press) and in the anthology I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues 2012).

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3 Responses to [obscenity for the advancement of poetry #6]

  1. [...] Phoebe and Big Bridge. There are some excellent, sweary poems by kathryn l. pringle in Phoebe, “obscenity for the advancement of poetry #6” and “obscenity for the advancement of poetry #7.” I also keep thinking about Emily [...]

  2. joe on June 26, 2012 at 5:29 pm

    Every slash between the phrases or the lonely word made me think of trenches, this structure reinforces the sense of multiplicity of events that each line is mentioning. Great poem!

  3. Phoebe Issue 41.2 Fall 2012 | Phoebe on September 19, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    [...] from Glock Chorus John A. Nieves: Altitude Sickness, …..Daydreamt kathryn l. pringle: [obscenity for the advancement of poetry #6] …..[obscenity for the advancement of poetry #7] Dean C Robertson: Otron and His Dark Horse [...]

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