Format:Chapbook
Size: 5 ½ x 8 ½
Pages: 28
portraits in time
by Mary Kasimor
Mary Kasimor has been writing poetry for much of her life. Writing and revising (and trying to understand her writing) are the most interesting parts of the writing process. Her recent poetry collections are Disrobing Iris (above/ground press 2019), Drink Me (BlazeVox Books 2019), The Landfill Dancers (BlazeVox Books 2014), Saint Pink (Moria Books 2015), The Prometheus Collage (Locofo Press 2017), Nature Store (Dancing Girl Press 2017). Her poetry has been published in Word For/Word, Touch the Donkey, Posit, Human Repair Kit, Drunk Monkeys, Silver Pinion, and Otoliths.
portraits in time
stripped down to my shivers
what did you say?
the balance is calm no one changes
direction to this direction
i am going
allowing the numbness
and pulling out the silence
it is not around the corner
the day is not the same
but it’s monotonous in the same way
placing my life into categories
like a brutal law
leaving my direction behind
i liked her far away
it’s just another riddle with eyes
when i got off the bus and smelled
the neighbor’s busyness
i visited the world and we
met halfway i listened
to the old people living in the halls
between facts emerging from
the mutated corn fields and wheat
sweating out bread making friends
and now crawling out of time
you are the portrait