The Dark is Here
by Kiki Petrosino 32 pages, soft cover,
stapled, w/inside artwork by Philip Miller $5 (First Class postage paid) string(65) "Smarty error: unable to read resource: "globalcontent:buythedark""
| from The Dark is Here Advisory Protocol | Remember that it is not your responsibility to account for the severely troubled. You need only swallow enough needles & enough bread. The first disruption will resemble a silver collapse of the inner ear. Then it enters the room. In such cases, you must learn to hold yourself in a state of tonic immobility, letting your remaining teeth fall to the carpet. If you find yourself shrinking to the thinness of a soap leaf, if you perceive your tongue halting in its progress across the windowpane, you may have entered a rare or acute oscillation. Try to exit firmly & with respect. In this, mark your training. Mark that each of your hands is a perianth of light. Where you wanted to go can’t be reached by lipgloss anymore. Get up, get up. You’ll have to climb. |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kiki Petrosino is the author of the poetry collection, Fort Red Border (Sarabande, 2009). She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Louisville.
