3 poems by Jude Marr
Your Honeycomb / My Inner Cheek by Savannah Slone
May 9, 2018DEATH Deserves a Super Like by Yvonne Spring
May 11, 2018Gutter Dance
after rain sidewalk weeds
weep: downtown
wild(er)ness
(unchained)
slickened mutts pad
tight alleyways: whistles/
finger-clicks un-
leashed/go
(savage)
woman: skin
tissue-thin: eyes
ragged: eve-
be-late/wait
(don’t wait)
streets meet: cracked
keystone: keyed car(rion)
limitless
(un)damage
eyes bite/ignite
enflame: eve (not)snake
particulate—
(not yet)
picked: clean—
eve-howl hard-
underwired: wolves scatter/
shatter: eve unmut(t)ed: de-stress: arabesque.
Ice to Fire
being we destroy
one another
race you to steam
dry I am
carbon-di oxide (smother)
flame liquid-ate
water melts
you dry burn
be: coming thirst: be
coming flood
become me
be solid
save me: try.
Scattershot Fundamentals
birds of pray
infight tight-feathered
tethered by spiral
lies while
talon-fodder turtles
(once aspiring)
now reign:
down(blown) tares
deface deserted
settlements: humans
(hard)scrabble for truth
among ruins:
not (faith)fools
reborn: not
sky-babble: will save:
when raptors attack
we are carrion
not manna.
Jude Marr teaches, and writes poetry, as protest. Jude is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and also poetry editor for r.kv.r.y. For links to more work, or to buy her chapbook, Breakfast for the Birds, please go to http://judemarr.com
