The Rising Phoenix Review posted: " Marginalia You look at melike I'm the last personyou want to see,eyes welled up withheartbreak full of buckshotand the thunderous purrof a chainsaw.6 The blood rinsesthese ink-stained hands7and tremblingmemory, widowed.My love is little notes in th" The Rising Phoenix Review Marginalia By tripp j crouse The Rising Phoenix Review Jan 13 Marginalia You look at me like I'm the last person you want to see, eyes welled up with heartbreak full of buckshot and the thunderous purr of a chainsaw.6 The blood rinses these ink-stained hands7 and trembling memory, widowed. My love is little notes in the margins written in dark cursive,8 forgotten asides, misspent connections ring like mallets raked down sun-dried spines At a table with vampires and thieves9 ready to chew through red meat, drawn and quartered by four mares. It's hard to keep secrets from people who speak with spirits. They tell me: We cannot go back. What is past won't be undone, only forward now, and hope for something new. ______________________________ 6 Stephen Graham Jones "My Heart is a Chainsaw" 7 Joan Naviyuk Kane "Late Successional" 8 Joan Naviyuk Kane "More Dissipate" 9 Hooray for the Riff Raff "Pierced Arrows" By tripp j crouse Biography: Biography: tripp j crouse (they/them) is niizh manidoowag (Two-Spirit) Ojibwe. They write poetry and perform spoken word. tripp serves as a poetry reader for Anomalous Press, or ANMLY, and has poetry published or forthcoming in The Yellow Medicine Review, oddball magazine, Grassroots, Zygote in My Coffee, Words & Whispers and beestung. Originally from the Midwest, Tripp now calls Dzantik'i Heeni (Juneau, Alaska) home.   Comment Manage your email settings or unsubscribe.

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