Author Archives: Mimi German
Ferlinghetti’s Interruption & Burning Prayers
“she brought me coffee in the rain and later in pink pajamas and slip on slippers she entered heaven where i was painting the doors white keep painting she rattled ruffling her papers then began reading ferlinghetti’s i am waiting i turned down the […]
“Dusk,” “Mercy,” and “In Winter’s Winds”
“the priestly trees are silent no hail mary’s or token absolutions they sway like a thousand rabbis at the wall but nothing wails except the wind the prayers have been folded and tucked into stones or turned into origami prisms and floated like kites toward the sky who is […]
A Scenic View
“poverty lines these roads linton scappoose rainier st helens where the burned out burger barns edge out the sky where sunburnt r-vees deliquesce over dirt roads where the weight of empty pockets is gangrenous to desiccated thoughts and prayers and shadows of shackles obfuscate light where sheds barely resemble houses resembling sheds where vernonia’s fields […]
Erotica & Longing During the Plague
“losing all my leaves soon i will resemble a dead weed it appears that spring is here and yet and yet and yet the seeds earth is dry beyond thirsting her people cruel annihilative and death is airborne my thoughts refuse order […]