outside a man has stopped hitting a tree with a stick the streetlight stutters on, off a bike frame stripped bare, locked to a stop sign on the lamppost, a crumbling printout of a missing cat a homeless woman cradles a boom box like a baby I have an ambivalent interest in the stars which […]
pirates shmirates—let’s cross the ocean we’ll unhitch a schooner fast at night sail south or west, away from land its maddening gridlock where we squabble in August hotness over which lane or who gets the bike the dog on board can be named Matey his rear left leg made of a teak post you do […]
Just told some dude with a poodle to fuck off. My pound mutt humped his puppy’s ass. He pretends to call the cops. No answer and I knew it. Bigger problems in this town. I will never understand the appeal of anger. So bored. Weather exhausts me. You call this winter? I’ll show you winter. […]
Tracey Knapp’s first book of poems, Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award in 2014 and will be published in 2015. Her manuscript was also a finalist for the Four Way Books Intro Prize. She has received scholarships from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has appeared in Best New Poets, Five Points, Red Wheelbarrow Review, The New […]
