Full Description
Cat's Tongue is the latest publication from California-based writer Kathleen Winter. These poems vary widely in style and subject matter, but they share precisely crafted language and this writer's unique perspective.
from "Each Day a New Round of Sadness"
Islands of the Hawaiian archipelago are connected
to each other under the surface of the sea.
Under the surface of the sea something roils
like a volcano preparing to explode.
To explode sometimes suggests a solution
to the situation of constraint, ubiquitous
as fear these days, when stasis is a prize.
A prize, that is, compared to illness.
Can't wellness sink its teeth deep into me
to feel acutely as a wound?
A wound is what the dream delivers
with an image of my mother
wreathed in Hawaiian flowers—
tuberose releasing its cloying
daylong ennui.
Contents
Beside Myself
Some days I want certainty, some days, revelation
Force of Habit
A Green Golf Shirt With Holes
The Twins
How We Understood Waste
In Karnes County
The Writing Teacher as Rampant Stag
Incandescence
Matchbox Picturing Two Women: "Beauty and Charm"
Crazing
Pas de Deux
Cuomo's Important Failures
Cat's Tongue
Each Day a New Round of Sadness
Signs of the Overly Hopeful
At Galveston Beach, 1935
Memory Fruit
If There's a God I'm a Horse's As
Spring Fury
Spring Poem
Call It Like You See It
