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Karen Kevorkian lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent, Quivira (3:A Taos Press, 2020). Recent poems appear in Volt, Antioch Review, Laurel Review, Denver Quarterly, and Michigan Quarterly Review; recent book reviews are in Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, and L.A. Review of Books. karenkevorkian.com

GEOMETRY by Karen Kevorkian

Monday, 14 November 2022 by Karen Kevorkian
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Small motors for taming grass moan, the day not so hot, in the
Times the columns of the dead are short ones

dried fronds droop at the tops of palms, brown petticoats to fall on walkers as Santa Anas send husks flying

the dream with a bride upended, long white veil trailing

a dance performance where Apollo and muses create expertly crafted geometry with their bodies

meeting the friend not seen for a long time, her tanned and lipsticked face, amiably she removes a sleek wig from her bald skull

it makes me so hot, little sounds with the mouth like water stumbling

past café windows green and black snakelike leaves, brushstrokes from a phallic era of painting, crow feathers’ seismic rustling

gray ficus trunks easy to carve into, names overlay names, roots coiled inconveniently above ground slashed to fit corridors between sidewalk and curb

here in my body it feels crowded, bottles slithering in a recycle truck, cataracts of glass

 

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