Issue 18: Kate Behrens
(Tom Raworth Memorial)
How the Lost Remains
unattached to guilt or thought
stellate and self-lit they taught
words beyond
un aconito
*
must you see that even clearer
than this unfolded hillside
wedge of gold-threaded water?
it shivers blue moons over thighs
and feet that stood for less adventure
*
though six visible counties
buzz with lime electric currents
wheat belonged between those elses
salix high-lit at the edges
*
one dress wraps
up your insides
you go out completed
elegant &
nondescript as night
odd child in black
on black
*
blue smoke spikes
snake and pine
heft on tracks
ess on sticks
broken-backed
kinks your cat
nicks riskily
*
wet-winged shadows
sprung from a bang
echoes
stain all these yellows
with blues
like silence to bells
Un aconito (It); an aconite
Kate Behrensʼ two collections, The Beholder and Man with Bombe Alaska were published respectively in 2012 and 2016 by Two Rivers Press. Other poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including previous issues of Blackbox Manifold, Mslexia, The Arts of Peace, an Anthology of Poetry, Sitegeist and as Oxford Brookesʼ Poem of the Week. Some are due to come out in Stand and The High Window later on in 2017.
