kerri sonnenberg
If I am your guest and you are a girl of two
how shape
adheres to shape
along the lake
a woman walking her
head balancing a box
and two parrots next
to lake shore drive
going
are we sure
the mayor's wife is really in-
to birds
you know green and blue
so much of the news
while drinking
out of fairy cups
I pour for you then
Europe colludes
in the flying we do
and don’t want to
see
imagine the air like your fairy queen
exempt from our sounds
(burps, half-words)
that fall out
Let’s go
let's go sister who teases
what money can buy/not talk
to me like that rumored ticket tuts relation
must cost the afterlife brought to you by
Exelon oh bless
bless the tourists so they go back
and tell of all the nice sneezing they did
the nicest place I know to wear a seatbelt
now let me out
teasing sister
Would you politely move a spider?
how seriously I’m off to require
more access
more hours dreamt we met famously you
complete the mileage there align saline
clouds off my aim smell medical
I really don’t know how
a body removes timbres or gets up and stands still
Why I don’t don’t I? want
to work I think
mustaches fluctuate in time
looked nothing like you
about art, fighting words
ledge: I think we’re attached
I’m your covering matches
my breathing: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet (II) (1983)
What time is it there?
neighbor moving strangely
in her house who needs that much space slow sideways bending
why we think with the earth
moves makes it our morning and
soccer's afternoon finding
the channel we pass
someone doing the same bending thing
I’ve got some sleeping chocolate
I've got some sleeping chocolate to
celebrate that so little I have done
in the north/west/universe
is that where you learn everything?
in the universe incessantly
macro/boozey?
kerri sonnenberg
lives in Chicago where she directs the monthly Discrete Reading Series
at the Elastic Arts Space. Her first book, The Mudra, came out in
2004 from Litmus Press. She is also author of the chapbook Practical
Art Criticism (Bronze Skull, 2004). Other writings have recently
appeared in Magazine Cypress, Factorial , and online at Unpleasant
Event Schedule, Milk magazine and MiPoesias. She currently works in
publishing and teaches community-based creative writing workshops.
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