3 poems by Jude Marr

Your Honeycomb / My Inner Cheek by Savannah Slone

May 9, 2018

DEATH Deserves a Super Like by Yvonne Spring

May 11, 2018

Gutter 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