Tag: Patricia Nelson
Four Poems | Patricia Nelson
So Many Serpentine Monsters This thumb-wide, hissing spine grew fatter as you slept. A crooked line now slips across the daylit stones and lifts the blue light in a swaying mouth. Pause your thudding boots, your bright-red, stumbling heart. Let strangeness taste you with its split gray tongue. […]
Four Poems|Patricia Nelson
Giant He walks upon the world as if it were a line, a black one without width or nuance. Along the axis of the town, he steps among the hot and small who do not love his tall, black eye. They think the giant watches them, rakes them with his rank […]