VINYL POETRY

Volume 5, March 2012

BIRDIE
Krista FranklinView Contributor’s Note

S(l)ide Show: Attraction/Repulsion

an ekphrastic poem for wangechi mutu
I say: home & show you spatter
carved heart still beating abandoned Nairobi bustling
I say: comfort show you corpus corpses
tossed in a heap dirty laundry
corrupted corner in the world’s dark room I say:
home show you bloody stump chopped leg
filet cheek (your) eye as vulture I say:
comfort show you army
amputation constrictor lips prolapsed uterus show you
squawking fetish stripper leg spread pearlized pussy
Africa gutted continent quartered
consumption colonizers cut-up
brain bake show you sleeping sickness
show you war torn unbodied

baby foot fish fat flesh feast
show you oozing show you ahhhhhing