“I Proceed With Steam”
My chair takes to air I need a stepladder in the steam that powers me to see the damp I hear my parents say … Read more →
Michelle Matthees
Michelle Matthees' poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Memorious, PANK, and The Baltimore Review. Last October New Rivers Press published her first book-length collection of poems, Flucht. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.
St. Angustius at The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Don’t look for a unifying face. Rather, be the air that holds the bird, the dark at the perfected edge of lamplight, an expanding room of locks where disarray prepares itself. At my wedding I wore white, flat as I could be. This, so that later, a defector to the background, I could fool the pez-nerce viewer trying to guess… Read more →
The Edge of Hortense
I’ve brought my own bonnet. When the good Lord comes: ready! But I keep shifting like April snow out of my own photo. The part of me that can’t be seen, that’s the unrolled stone (Hallelujah!), that’s the black screw turned tighter into the bedstead. It’s the sighing falsehood of ice eating all of the pond’s air, a rocker stilled… Read more →