Re: Word: Polina Barskova
____________________________________________________________________
This poem first appeared in the June, 2013 issue of B O D...
Continue Reading
Friday Pick: Carol Frost
With crystalline precision, sharp passion, and a sure-footed wherewithal of the frontier of language's dominion over nature, Frost crafts a skilled, significant poetry of surprise and delight.
Gale Marie Thompson
Would that I could / That we closed the reactors / Would that we become / A blanket of cement in the forest / That we hide there with the nettles / And watch the Eagle land again and again
Polina Barskova
I will try to live on earth without you. // I will become any object, / I don’t care what— / I will be this speeding train.