Tag: Violet Mitchell

  • Four Poems for Haunted Passages: Violet Mitchell

    Four Poems for Haunted Passages: Violet Mitchell

    You Buried Me Right Where I Belong baby i               watch you watch me destroy myself baby i      am staticending gray starting     gray                                    i watch you watch me sleep w eyes closed we sleep                                    in dead leaves  |          i decay along w my precision there are          tangles in my armpit hair sweaty coupling w my bluish…

  • “To Be in a Time of Extinction,” prose poetry by Violet Mitchell

    “To Be in a Time of Extinction,” prose poetry by Violet Mitchell

    —after Etel Adnan   To find a list with macaws, to read of the eastern cougar, to try to imagine the sound of its growl, to set down the list and your diet cola, to check the time, to check the calendar, to find a pen, to write a grocery list, to forget detergent, to…