Civil War by Leigh Stein

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Civil War
by Leigh Stein

I apologize for getting off on danger, but
I can’t tell you any more
about my transitory fantasies involving the two of us
being consumed by prairie fire, because remember
last time? when I said I wanted to take the bones
of your hands and make them into a heart shaped brooch
for my new tweed jacket?

You totally freaked out
and I was just being romantic.

And I’m sorry that
I spent most of last night trying
to crawl inside the spine of my atlas and
I’m also sorry for eskimo kissing the hell out of
the Mason-Dixon line, but globes make
impossible pillows. Pillows make
impossible pillows. I don’t know what to do any more
but ask you to sever and mail me a limb while
I work on memorizing the topography of too far away.


(from Gangway #35)

Comments

[https://users.livejournal.com/-spiderwebs/]

whoa that totally jogged my mind, I love it

[scheherazade3.livejournal.com]

Nice.

[doublehelix.livejournal.com]

Björk is so the perfect artist to whom to listen while enjoying this poem.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__jennacide/]

Oh this is so fabulous.
Do you have any of her other work you wouldn't mind posting?

[ecdysiasm.livejournal.com]

I've actually just discovered her work myself (courtesy of natelyswhore, who posted this (http://natelyswhore.livejournal.com/465822.html) lovely poem), so all I've read of hers is what I could find on Google -- which is quite a lot, actually. Also, she has a blog here (http://leighstein.blogspot.com/).

Coolbeans!

[definitiv.livejournal.com]

I was in the same issue! But this is sooo much better!

[kevincarter.livejournal.com]

Leigh puts together some amazing chapbooks and is an excellent writer. She used to post on her old journal, wist.

[iatrogenicmyth.livejournal.com]

this is so uniquely beautiful.

[acreofbones.livejournal.com]

Fantastic.

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

...I love this.