Clockwise Cat Issue 40
We lovingly dedicate Issue 40 to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. We hereby offer a mini-tribute to him among many other amazing writings and artworks. Stay tuned to an entire tribute issue to Felino, coming up in early Spring, 2019.
We lovingly dedicate Issue 40 to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. We hereby offer a mini-tribute to him among many other amazing writings and artworks. Stay tuned to an entire tribute issue to Felino, coming up in early Spring, 2019.
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Two Poems<br />
By Hilary Morgan Leathem<br />
Author bio: Hilary Morgan Leathem is a Sicilian-American<br />
anthropologist and artist from Chicago. She is currently a PhD<br />
candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago<br />
and a Fulbright-Hays scholar based in Oaxaca, Mexico. A rather new<br />
poet, you can find some of her first poems published in The Raven’s<br />
Perch and her comics in The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography.<br />
Neon War<br />
Turquoise gems<br />
Little nuggets that sit<br />
Behind electric eye sockets<br />
Plug him in<br />
And see the rocks spark<br />
And fry the frigid and stale air.<br />
Watch the room light up<br />
In an atomic blast<br />
Of igneous and metamorphic<br />
Filigree.<br />
War starts with the eyes<br />
And a single stroke of a motion.<br />
They Want Your Blood<br />
<br />
They plunder your veins for the last of the rubies,<br />
A bloodstone of metallic ore,<br />
that screeches when it flows<br />
like the neighborhood cat<br />
falling behind the bushes, <br />
Like a <strong>40</strong> year old scarab
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