Crossing

Karin Spitfire

There is
for the sake of every 
white bone
stumbled on in the woods
or buried in the ritual of its sect
the glowing  
biluminous firmament
receiving the soul into its
munificence

this must

and does not
ameliorate
repeatedly running into 
the brick wall of Gone
where you once were
full bloodied, joke pulling, 
jerk face, you 
gone

this confounding lack
gorging on light      
does not articulate 
the stealth passage, the ride 
over the river Styx
shedding the encumbrance
of  being.

About the author

Karin Spitfire is the author of a full-length book of poetry, Standing with Trees, and a chapbook, Wild Caught. She is a past Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine. Her poetry has been published in Currents, Rootdrinker, Off the Coast, The Uphook Press First Anthology, as well as in TRIVIA. Women’s Work Dance Collective commissioned a poem for their 2009 “Landscapes” concert. Her poem "What is to Be Offered," published in The Kerf, was nominated for the Pushcart Award.

Spitfire is the author of Incest: It’s All Relative, a performance/dance poem that toured nationally from 1982–86. Other performance poems include Corpus Callosum, the original Standing with Trees, Sports and Art, and Wild Card Anatomy.

For an updated list of works published in TRIVIA, please see this author's contributor page. 

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