Christine Herzer [Part Two]

LANGUAGE

Language (detail), 2008

Oil pastels, crayon, marker on paper

Christine Herzer is a poet and visual artist. She lives in India.  New work is forthcoming in boo journal, Blackbox Manifold, Inertia and Moon Milk Review Anthology 2011. She is the author of the e-chapbook, i wanted to be a pirate, from H_NGM_N Books, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Christine Herzer

Christine Herzer is a poet and visual artist. She lives in India.  New work is forthcoming in boo journal, Blackbox Manifold, Inertia and Moon Milk Review Anthology 2011. She is the author of the e-chapbook, i wanted to be a pirate, from H_NGM_N Books, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Rebecca Farivar [Part Two]

MISTAKING MIRRORS


The sky is so empty
like I’m told to be.

The problem is
I can’t sit still:

a child bored
by the beach.

And when I’m empty
I echo, and it hurts –

that’s something,
a thing:

one bird breaks
the whole sky.




Rebecca Farivar's poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Octopus, 6X6, Parcel, cold-drill, and elsewhere. Octopus Books will publish her first full-length collection of poems in 2011 and her chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press) is also due out this year. A California native, she holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California and currently lives in Bonn, Germany.

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Rebecca Farivar

MY ELDER KINSMEN UNLIVING

When a thing may

or may not be

real, you sense

it as a half-

presence, a source,

a back-story

you’ve hidden, thrown

into the trough

between two waves.

Now monsters crawl

to you, stalk you,

leave the bogs and

meres for you. A

whole line died to

kill you, but you’re

here still. And yet

you can’t break a-

way. You are full

of dark matter.

That comes from your

fathers, mothers,

your brothers, your

unnamed sister.

Think about what

haunts you, think of

the waves, the meres,

the monster-strewn

shores of somewhere

else, and then ask

again what haunts.

Rebecca Farivar's poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Octopus, 6X6, 
Parcel, cold-drill, and elsewhere. Octopus Books will publish her first full-length collection 
of poems in 2011 and her chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press) is also due out this 
year. A California native, she holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California 
and currently lives in Bonn, Germany.