Triangular/Tri-angle-her
MIME
because her son lived
she
went to mass twice a day
because her son lived
she gave up sweets
once and for all
bacon, berlin, caisson, chiffon, clothespin, coupon,
darvon, doctrine, drunken,
krypton, million, pitchmen, russian, sermon, shaven,
sovereign, suntan, warden
PANTOMIME
because her mother starved
she
ate & ate
because her mother starved
she
spoke in tongues
& channeled snakes
billion, born-again, broken, elton, felon, glutton,
margin, mission, omen, passion,
rayon, reagan, riven, saigon, sampan, sequin, shaman,
siphon, tampon, vulcan
PASTIME
because her mother acted out
she
oms calm
because her mother ate & ate
she
f(b)logs herself with kale
vows to cleanse herself
once
and for all
brazen, dragon, gluten, goblin, gunman, genome, hempen,
iphone, jasmine,
net-gen, pagan, sullen, taliban, trillion,
toxin, urban, vegan, veteran
tauntie mame=my anti-meme
my
poet loa=anima sola=one-woman sass band=the intermediary
who protects me from remote gods & slick
crawdads
her spun steel hair=cornmeal bosom &
lumpen hips=
a mother loaf
when I lose heart I reach for her raptor
pluck=her mantis
mouth=to bite the heads off all my
doubts
found poem: the art
[of the] come-on: an overheard emoticon
student
lounge. finals week
her: i worked on the piece for 16 hours straight
in an unventilated room. got high off my ass
on turpentine.
him: you have a piece of
glitter on your lips.
her: what are you doing this
summer?
him: bookstore–d & d,
coffee, comics–a dream job.
her: lucky. i’m saving for a
new piercing.
him: i’ll do your navel for 20
bucks.
Maureen Kingston is an assistant editor at The Centrifugal Eye. Her poems and prose
have appeared or are forthcoming in The Camel Saloon, Emerge Literary Journal, Gone Lawn, The
Meadowland Review, Rufous City Review, Stone Highway Review, Terrain.org, VAYAVYA, Visceral Uterus, and Wild Orphan.
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