Three Poems by Kerrin McCadden (poetry ’14)
An excerpt from “Weeks After My Brother Overdoses” by Kerrin McCadden (poetry ’14), published by The Los Angeles Review and “What I Have Lost at Sea,” published by SWWIM Every Day.
Weeks After My Brother Overdoses
I search craigslist for sadness: a white couch the only result.
Happiness lands red shipping containers, and that’s it.
I wander through days like an envelope marked please forward.
Listen. My brother is a ghost. I keep thinking I am not a sister
anymore, though others assure me I still am. Just sister them,
builders say to make a thicker beam, or to span a distance,
join the faces of two-by-sixes with nails, make more from less,
make do. No one will let me have my sadness or tally
what I’ve lost. I make lists like recipes for how to go on alone.
What I Have Lost at Sea
What have I lost at sea
is a question you insist has an answer,
the gap between flotsam
and jetsam begging the question
about discarding versus truly losing,
[… continue reading “Weeks After My Brother Overdoses” and companion poem “reverse overdose” at The Los Angeles Review and continue reading “What I Have Lost at Sea” at SWWIM Every Day.]
