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  • The American Poetry Review

    FIVE POEMS

    Sep 01, 2019 3 minutes
    KIRSTEN KASCHOCK

    Explain This Corpse

    Why is it drowning? Why unpinned
    floaty locks, inset with fallen
    leaf&filth as if any buoyant trash

    were jewel? Why painted pale—
    not pale and bloated? Why more adored
    minnow-lipped than when she

    breathed air, spoke? Why love we
    such dank ophelia? Why rather this
    only dead only girl? I won’t. Any-

    more I prefer nunnery. For me, mine.
    My crush of crones know several rivers—
    one is age. We row it sure, dip&pull.

    We throat coarse boatsong thru lipsunstriving since birth towards blue.And so this

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