“from ‘Articulation'” by Kimberly Kruge (poetry, ’15)

Work from Kimberly Kruge (poetry, ’15) appears in Witness:

from “ARTICULATION”

A Michoacán pine loosens a spirant into the night, and deeper, the collective forest modulates a fricative. Deeper yet, the forest on fire. Silently. Suddenly: I hate everything I’ve ever written. Even the alright utterance. The forest, on the other hand, really knows how to put an observation between its teeth and let it speak for itself: order in not disrupting the order.

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In June, advances. The rain. The frog mates. The velvet spider emerges. June: the whip snake, the reproduction of the winged ant.

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