Considering a future husk—the disappearance of a silkworm—I remake you, domestic moth, downy and felted, almost artificial. Striking against glass, tapping music— I am steeped in aroma, you behind a hallway’s closed door—mercurial tubular bells, petulant horns, threshing floor dust and fibers. Might this be the ghost I’d deform you into knocking between the floorboards? Thing of pearls and velvet, to be pinned across my rough flax—decadence brewed in bit and yoke and cream. Instead, you are alive, nibbling on, unsatisfied, some mushroom gravy, too bland and as tidy as another century’s calligraphic script. What do we make but our daily dinner. Serve me— cabbage soup and crackers.
Cathlin Noonan (she/her) is completing her MFA at Texas State University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Banyan Review, The Broadkill Review, Broad River Review, Crazyhorse, Pidgeonholes, Ruminate, Sweet Lit, and Small Orange Journal. She is Assistant Poetry Editor for The Night Heron Barks and Associate Editor for Ran Off With the Star Bassoon. She lives in San Antonio and can be found online at cathlinnoonan.com.
11/8 / Meet the Artist with visiting poet-in-residence Ruby Hansen Murray / The Library at The Betsy-South Beach, Miami Beach, FL / Live and Live-Streamed on Instagram Live/Facebook Live at @swwimmiami / 6:00 pm EST / Free
11/8 / Poetry Reading with visiting poet-in-residence Ruby Hansen Murray and local poet Judy Ireland / The Library at The Betsy-South Beach, Miami Beach, FL / Live and Live-Streamed on Instagram Live/Facebook Live at @swwimmiami / 7:30 pm EST / Free
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