Imagine you are the wildflower.
\nThe pocketwatch.
\nThe ground coral
\nand lapis, the dung.<\/p>\n
A brassiere of shrews<\/p>\n
opens. She gathers verbena<\/p>\n
and straw.
\nHe breaks gin,<\/p>\n
breathes kind,
\nlingers,
\nfingers.<\/p>\n
She hangs with the
\nplaintiffs, misfits, and plantains.<\/p>\n
She recited:
\nhouse,
\nplate,
\n\u017euvis*<\/p>\n
She was instructed to insert herself
\ninnocuously into another distilled<\/p>\n
generation. The professor exclaimed:<\/p>\n
Go to the sand, reject its ilk with wings! Shred the documents in the sea!<\/p>\n
And this was an epoch
\nor era, in which we lost our vertebrae.<\/p>\n
Me in your palm-estuary–all cherry stems and swizzles.<\/p>\n
*Lithuanian: “fish”<\/p>\n
Lina ramona Vitkauskas<\/strong> is the author of Spiny Retinas<\/a><\/em> (Mutable Sound, 2014); Professional Poetry<\/a><\/em> (White Hole Press, 2013); A Neon Tryst<\/em> (Shearsman Books, 2013); Honey is a She<\/a><\/em> (Plastique Press, 2012); and The Range of Your Amazing Nothing<\/a><\/em> (Ravenna Press, 2010).<\/p>\n She is the recipient of the Henry Miller Memorial Library Ping Pong Journal Prize (selected by Eleni Sikelianos) and The Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading Award <\/a>(selected by Brenda Hillman).<\/p>\n Publications include Spork, Coconut, The Awl, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, The Chicago Review, The Toronto Quarterly–<\/em>among many others.<\/p>\n With Larry Sawyer, she has co-edited milk magazine<\/a> <\/em>(since 1999). She has also served as a part-time faculty member at the Chicago School of Poetics <\/a>for 2011-2013. Her website is here<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Imagine you are the wildflower. The pocketwatch. The ground coral and lapis, the dung. A brassiere of shrews opens. She gathers verbena and straw. He breaks gin, breathes kind, lingers, fingers. She hangs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9926],"tags":[22076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/requited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}