THE SOUND
I am not a religious person,
but woodblocks
being pressed together at seven PM
make me feel like maybe
god is inside a sound
like that
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 10.03.09)
MANY TWITCHING LEGS
Staring at the roach on my ceiling at 11pm
while holding a glass of wine,
I wonder if he has been there
since I left for work because
he has been poisoned,
or not
And now I am sure I will have
some kind of horrible dream tonight,
thanks to his stagnation and my
many twitching
legs
- Nicole Kuwik
(featured in the poetry forum 10.03.09)
EVERYONE
is so damn skinny
that I just might
stay inside
They talk about
Starbucks for lunch,
and I stare
at the center console
Well, the average woman
in the United States today
weighs 140 pounds,
but if you walk into a store
with wooden floors,
and ask them
what song is playing,
you wouldn't know it.
You could try and catch
a lyric and look it up
yourself, but keep
in mind that
back in 1952
you could measure
a mannequin's hip and
come up with
34 inches.
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 07.31.08)
EVERYWHERE
This guy I know,
he is "finding God everywhere
he
goes"
and I am finding emails
about
cats and dogs
being skinned alive
in China.
Some with collars
some with out...
either way, it
fills my stomach
with gravel, and
I Wonder if they'll be
able to hear all that
Olympic business
going on?
Or maybe
when you're awaiting
death among the dead,
you don't hear much
besides the
releasing latch.
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 07.31.08)
ONE 5 OZ. CANDLE FOR $2.50
I walk around in cowboy boots
and sunglasses,
with a brown paper bag in one hand,
but what they don't know
is that inside
there is only soy milk
and one 5 oz. candle
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 06.16.08)
MY BRAIN IS GIVING UP ON ME
I wake up in the middle of night
screaming about cockroaches and
I don't even kill them when I see them
on my carpet
They might have to sit beneath a jar
for a few minutes, but they always
end up
back outside
legs twitching,
antenae in tact.
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 06.16.08)
ON DROWNING IN A RIVER OR PROBABLY JUST A CANAL
I watch the MASON jar
fill up like a car under water
and wonder
if I
would be one of the people
you hear about on the news
who cut the seat belt
in time
Yes, this enters my head
as I grasp the butterknife
to scrape the label
But all I really wanted was
something clean and simple
to drink from.
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 06.16.08)
THE RAIN, IT COMES IN THE AFTERNOON
It's storming outside
and the thunder,
while alone,
is something I am not afraid of
However,
the flowers you brought have died
and are smelling of attics in Ohio
as I am leaving them to dry
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 06.16.08)
IT'S ENGRAVED, YOU SEE, AND CAME IN THE MAIL
I shiver without reason
and my hair
stands up straight as
I contemplate the lives
of people with cable
"I'm not even gonna lie,
I miss TV," he said before
digging up the
Tiffany's necklace
I never asked for from
1 Christmas and
86 miles ago
We sat on dark wood floors
in a creaky house as
he handed me bobby pins
and clips I didn't care about
anymore, then got too drunk
to see my face
I left a plastic flower on
his broken bathroom sink
before I left, but I know his teeth are
rotting, regardless
in that mis-firing
head of his.
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 06.16.08)
THERE IS DEFINATELY SOMETHING WRONG
I know this because today
I had to wrap a 188.00 dollar
pair of jeans
twice
in tissue paper because
the first sheet was
"too wrinkled."
Tomorrow this will go on being true
and I will go on eating beans
while staring at the wall.
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 06.16.08)
THE ONE BY THE BEACH WAS AS BIG AS A BIRD
All these dying butterflies
are really getting to me
To see them flailing about
on the concrete
brings visions of broken windows
and germinating seeds, and
for a second I believe I might
actually
do something.
- Nicole Kuwik
(added 06.16.08) |
