![]() “GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY YOU SHOULD MOVE DURING MY LORD’S I felt an iron hand grip my wrist in the total darkness,įlinging me from the top bunk to the floor. When a sand flea decided to dig into my face. I was in the top bunk reciting The Lord’s Prayer Ninety seconds to shit, two minutes to shower,Įventually the call for chow would make us salivate –Īfter lights out we were made to lie at attention in our bedsĪnd they would get under your skin and start biting. This is where we were being taught to be men but also less than men –Įxtensions of a great killing machine called the U.S. By day, she is a middle school special education teacher.Ī New York City boy being made a man in the South. Her first full-length collection, The Future Has A Reputation, was published by CW Books in 2020. Other poems by Susanna Kittredge have appeared in journals including Barrow Street (Winter 2017-2018), The Columbia Review (Spring 2016) and Salamander (Summer 2011) and anthologies including Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). Unevenly across the pages because it’s still hotĪnd humid and the wor(l)d is still melting. In your prayer book with French psalms that swim You’ll be covered in grass stains, shaking words out of your pages From over her bed you can seeĪ smear of garden through the translucent curtains. In a dreamcatcher (a simple one without feathers the friend You try to go to them while they sleep and get caught With all the revolutionary fervor of a Communist sunrise? The b’s form an arch the c’s float along in a straight, shimmering line.Īnd behind you, more words pile on top of themselvesĪnd become illegible. Their Kools, their plants, and their rotary telephones. Losing their faith and their heads but keeping their cool, Your three friends, the catalogue models, have moved to Paris, The sidewalk catches the tough sun like radiant sandstone. It’s so hot out, your head and torso dissolveĪs your arms lift your shirt above your shoulders. Susanna Kittredge Ekphrastic Slideshow in a Heat WaveĪfter a series of images by various artists Kidd has had poetry and flash fiction published in Elsewhere: A Journal of Place, Friday Flash Fiction, Journal of the American Medical Association, Green Ink Poetry, bluepepper, Ffraid and Soor Ploom Press. He stopped to listen in silent acknowledgementĪndrew C. In the caress and cushion of gentle waves. ”Īuthor writes in NYC under the pen name Jan Cronos. ” Both of his daughters declare that he is the “best daddy they have, ” and his pre-teen science students rave that he is “Fine, I guess. His mother believes his poetry is “just wonderful. Savoring this temporary moment of revengeĬhristopher Clauss (he/him) is an introvert, Ravenclaw, father, poet, photographer, and middle school science teacher in rural New Hampshire. Something that feels to him like justice – Hurdling the playground fence and sprinting – – the victim-turned-aggressor-turned-fugitive – Of the schoolyard – only until it isn’t – Recess duty – this is when I attempt to watchĪnything they can do to keep from tantrum – My coastline – ravaging every rosebud and Velocity of the Schoolyard The Fibonacci sequence tells Well now I have a new addiction.Christopher Clauss Sitting in Sympathies Hours after The sourness is a weird one, it isn’t so sharp it makes you wince or puckers your lip but it’s more than sour enough, perhaps it’s the sweet flavour countering it but I don’t care – I just want more!! The flavour is incredible! Super strong and just as promised strangely sour with an underlying sweetness that makes these dangerously addictive. I can’t say plum flavoured sweets are one I seek but I will be from now on. ![]() As we’d spent all week talking about them I offered one to Mr.1T and immediately regretted it when he claimed half of the pack. Of the two bags I assumed I’d prefer the Jelly Belly. The Soor Plooms (honestly I LOVE the name, me and Mr.1T have been walking around all week just saying Soor Ploom over and over again!) are small hard, shiny green boiled sweets that last a long time in the mouth but had just enough give that after a while of sucking I could give them a good crunch. So a sour Scottish plum flavoured sweet… Sounds interesting! The great plum flavour lasts right to the end of the sweet and is complemented by a perfet hint of sourness. ![]() They are a traditional sugar free Scottish sweet. It’s not a misprint – this is what they call this sweet in Scotland!. I’d never heard of Soor Plooms before and over on Sweets Without they’re described as – ![]() These were the other sweets Peter from Sweets Without sent me to try. ![]()
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