{"id":782,"date":"2010-04-12T19:56:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T00:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/?p=782"},"modified":"2010-04-12T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T00:56:46","slug":"cathleen-daly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullofcrow.com\/poetry\/2010\/04\/cathleen-daly\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathleen Daly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valise<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/strong>
\nI am carrying something like a valise
\nI am red in its snap cricket hinges
\nI’ve lacquered nails – I represent a bright drop of blood
\nor an industrious, decorative beetle<\/p>\n

I harvest a straw of matter from an inter-stellar moan
\nsnap it tight in my velvet cage. click click!
\nI could be a whole flight crew!
\nI indicate sex by stroking objects.
\nenunciate safety, a floating lounge
\n(I blow calmly calmly into your boat)<\/p>\n

something changes right here.<\/p>\n

I teeter into phonograph needle
\nI must travel back. thru your spiral grooves
\nto when girls could woo the world
\nwith one flash of ankle <\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

small hallowed dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n

kiss-sucked into
\nthoracic cavity<\/p>\n

the first balled up
\nlove note I hurled at your skull
\n(poor
\nmrs.
\nrolf)
\nare the wings<\/p>\n

damp…unfolding\u2026shy wrinkled fire
\nonly this fragility
\n(if the air had skin)
\nenables flight<\/p>\n

only this
\nsymmetry captures
\nthe blind-numb hinge
\nallows the sky\u2019s clapboard jawbone<\/p>\n

its tossed and tethered<\/p>\n

teeth<\/p>\n

hypothetical bob and flesh bob<\/strong><\/p>\n

hypothetical bob and flesh bob are in a dark alley
\nhypothetical bob has a chip on his shoulder
\nit’s shaped like hypothetical sex. he’d like to squish
\nflesh bob’s face in. make it meat. turn it inside out
\nthen outside out again. hose it down. put it on his own head
\nhis hypothetical arms whir like a circular saw
\nlike so many lost digits. flesh bob is smoking reefer
\nalone
\nhis smoke shapes itself into an inexplicable vortex
\nhe is leaning against a wall. taking his face for granted
\nif anything his genitals annoy him. up & down. up & down
\nsweat scratch and shift. hypothetical bob can’t stand it
\nhe closes his eyes. pictures an orchid. is gone
\nflesh bob’s ears stop buzzing. he puts out his joint,
\nspit pinch hiss. shifts his package, re-enters the bar.<\/p>\n

lights go smack<\/strong><\/p>\n

there would have been
\ntoo much beer
\npinball
\n(blurry lights go smack)<\/p>\n

finger joints looser
\nthan wings<\/p>\n

grubby shorelines
\nhosting our union<\/p>\n

unsuspecting
\nimpact<\/p>\n

bald
\nmeteors
\nhiss<\/p>\n

(the cosmos sings
\nand sings
\nas it cracks
\ninto ever
\nsmaller
\npieces)<\/p>\n

Cathleen Daly is a performer and writer. She’s had poetry published in a variety of journals and e-zines including Slow Trains, Poetry Super Highway, Literary Mama (the anthology, Seal Press), Poets Against the War, Kill Poet Press, and others. She’s authored one chapbook <\/em>Ode to the Unhinged.<\/em> Her last show <\/em>How to be a Secret Agent Girl as Seen on American Television and in Movies<\/em> was produced extensively in San Francisco and won Best of the SF Fringe Festival. She has two children’s books and one teen novel coming out with award winning Roaring Brook Press.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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