Clockwise Cat Strikes Back
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Two poems<br />
By Kris Hall<br />
Do Svidaniya Saturday Night<br />
Arnold Schwarzenegger compares weight lifting to ejaculation and I don't know at<br />
which point I am most disturbed, being in range of my friend's impression or my total<br />
understanding After several months of not speaking to him I find it appropriate to<br />
provide him the skinny on my doldrums They are puffy embroidered stars that begin an<br />
ugly shade of measles and meadow I am compelled to share them with the universe but<br />
taking selfies at my age feels ridiculous If he spends the entire winter building the Yurt<br />
only to leave it for the Fox-tailed Grizzly, at what level has he beaten me? As I picture<br />
his epic fade into the woods I recall the boy who hanged himself high in the thicket<br />
because of how free the inchworm looked dangling from its skein<br />
Donuts<br />
Your insufferable joy has gone straight to my hips Sleepless, fixated on the<br />
benefit of resting pods Desquamation from a brisk sojourn in rapid stasis The<br />
whole department thinks I've cut myself shaving / gills This smile peels--& I have<br />
only thought about the seconds clinking piano keys briefly What else can<br />
be enchanted that does not incur another insufferable joy? You expand the text in<br />
my whisper balloon, its shaped in bold black: Petrichor and then the storm<br />
Author bio: Kris Hall is a writer and event coordinator for Da'daedal from Seattle, WA.<br />
Author of the chapbooks; Dillinger on the Beach (Horse Less Press) and Notes for Xenos<br />
Vesparum (Shotgun Wedding). He has been featured in The Monarch Review, Pismire,<br />
and The EEEL.
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