Her Linen Smogged
for NM
She is caged
in an encasing glance
Slim moss, camel sung
Smog over glass songs
Calm loss, lemons scaling solemn
Melon macing smells
She hangs from the clang elm
a lime smile
Lilac claims her mica
manic linens smog omens
lac ensigns nine
over
a clonal messing
Nosing around names
an “amen” clings
Into the canal’s galena lace
magic snags on glass
Coma angel, my gallon mangle
mango and lanolin, nominal
The enigma of signalmen
Lame ass!
Anne Gorrick's work has been published in many journals including: American Letters and Commentary, the Cortland Review, Dislocate, eratio, Fence, Gutcult, Hunger Magazine, MiPOesias, No Tell Motel, Seneca Review, Sulfur, and word for/word. Her work has appeared in several anthologies including: The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Press, 2006), Homage to Vallejo (Greenhouse Review Press, 2006), and Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers (Codhill Press, 2007). Her first book, Kyotologic, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books (Exeter, UK). Collaborating with artist Cynthia Winika, she produced a limited edition artists' book "Swans, the ice," she said with grants from the Women's Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY and the New York State Council for the Arts. She also curates the reading series Cadmium Text, featuring innovative writing from in and around New York's Hudson Valley. More about the readings can be found here.