December 2009 | Word Riot

2009 Poetry

December 2009 Three Poems by Drew DeGennaro Two Poems by Lena Judith Drake Two Poems by David Fishkind Seven Heads

INTERVIEWS An Interview With D. Harlan Wilson by David F. Hoenigman An Interview With Chelsea Martin by David Moscovich An

I wake up before I’m supposed to. The endotrachael tube presses against the base of my tongue and disappears into

Review by John Madera

Dear Michael Kimball,

Strangely, instead of writing “Reviewed by John Madera” above, I wrote: “Reviewed by

He’s collecting new ways to make me come,Upside down and backwardsIn the park on his face,The window ledge,With his thumb

The elderly I visitedat the care home near my schoolslowly turned into an island.Months became sand, white bedsheetsfrothy surf. Nurses

Lightless, the van tramped the path. Whenever I hear this story—in all of its incarnations, in the versions that feature

Listen to a podcast of Joly Herman’s “Closer.”

He pulls and she rolls away. He smells like leather. He pulls her

Listen to a podcast of Mark Reep’s “Blue Pinto.”

The girl at the Quikfill’s polite enough, no more. Sean thanks

Listen to a podcast of Idris Goodwin’s “Death to the mystical muse.”

when her head tilts a snowflake gentlylands upon