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Issue Three
KRISTIANE WEEKS-ROGERS
Words Are Reassembly
If words
are reassembly
of skeleton,
which white bones
do I pull lengua from?
I ask myself
I ask my father
my grandmother
no one can remember where –
Reclaim
plummeted branches
from oldest Ahuehuete at dusk
as red fingers blot out
a tongue
generations forgotten –
I, thin green strip off –
center
fallen but
lifts then,
to seep into the red
just barely,
barely.
Spell Against Ghosts
My father once told me,
"Corn is a spell for the dead,"
letting the magic
slip into object
which surrounds
my youth, Indiana-grown.
I begin to hide red kernels
in my pockets,
finger them when
I feel black rush,
chant over and
over:
give corn to spirits
as they float away
to make sure their
life continues, happily.
of skeleton,
which white bones
do I pull lengua from?
I ask myself
I ask my father
my grandmother
no one can remember where –
Reclaim
plummeted branches
from oldest Ahuehuete at dusk
as red fingers blot out
a tongue
generations forgotten –
I, thin green strip off –
center
fallen but
lifts then,
to seep into the red
just barely,
barely.
Spell Against Ghosts
My father once told me,
"Corn is a spell for the dead,"
letting the magic
slip into object
which surrounds
my youth, Indiana-grown.
I begin to hide red kernels
in my pockets,
finger them when
I feel black rush,
chant over and
over:
give corn to spirits
as they float away
to make sure their
life continues, happily.
Kristiane Weeks-Rogers grew up around Lake Michigan and now lives in Colorado. She earned her MFA at Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in where she will be teaching as a Writing Seminar instructor for BA students for the 2018-2019 academic year. She is the 2nd place winner of Casa Cultural de las Americas and University of Houston's inaugural Poetic Bridges 2017 contest, with a chapbook titled Become Skeletons forthcoming.
