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Menacing Hedge

Look, it’s the new issue of Menacing Hedge!: http://menacinghedge.com/summer2013/

Thanks to Kelly Boyker and editors for featuring five of my poems alongside such great writers.

a poem from huminsect is featured on Bibliomancy Oracle!

 

http://bibliomancyoracle.tumblr.com/

huminsect – a new chapbook from dancing girl press

I’m excited to announce that my first chapbook huminsect is now available from dancing girl press. As someone who’s been producing DIY chaps for a while, I know (and most of you do as well) how labor-intensive the process is – and I am so grateful to Kristy for her hard work and dedication to the printed book. Also – her books are stunning! I hope you will check them out.

 
A bit about the book:

Writing this work was a way to give witness to the convergences of the reader/writer by incorporating some found language derived from my autobiographical dictionary -a source text I’ve compiled of words new to me discovered through reading. So on some level – you’re all in it too. If we conceive of the body as a gathering place where knowledge becomes assimilated and experiences are felt, it becomes an intersection of all it touches and is touched by. 

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http://dulcetshop.ecrater.com/p/18043335/huminsect-melissa-eleftherion

Sprung Formal 8

Sprung Formal 8

The new Sprung Formal is out! And I have some poems in it which is fun too.

Featuring work by: Ben Fama, Abby Carr, Sarah Jean Alexander, Dillon J. Welch, Chuck Young, Teal Wilson, Abeleine Throckmorton, Brittany Ficken, Anna Kamerer, Rachel Benson, Malory Ward, Piotr Gwiazda, Nick Sturm, Stephen O’Toole, Jaclyn Senne, Marcus Slease, Nika Winn, Tyler Cain Lacy, Nicki Blanchard, Jessica Cornelison, Jessi Wilson, Adam Clay, J. Victoria Terrell, Matt Hart, Stacy Kidd, Laedan Galicia, Brian Clifton, Paul Siegell, Miles Fermin, Alli Warren, Melissa Eleftherion, Nathan Masserang, Andy Ozier, Anna Martin, Lauren Stookey

Thanks to the editors!

dictionary poem

 

Ambulatory intense discard as if with branches, drawn axes

To scale erosion with figures the wall held to a fire

To become solemnly visible, gratification of the body

A curving, a fabric, tidal device a study of

Sub-atomic music the absolute brightness

toward birds

 

“When something new evolves, it is often built out of old parts”

Salt glistens on its wing turns to tongue alkaline sweat of iridescence in summer sun it was a hot gutter it was a hot gutter but there were rainbows

Twitching song of steeler’s jay, attached at the stitched up the botched in the middle -screech of barn owl seeking dark for its maternal, they put the baby in your arms and expect – common loon a smooth jazz riff, albino hunts the steel guitar – furry flapping of bellied sandgrouse, fetal algae up jump the boogie – birdsong triggered by pituitary light

 

 

*glitters*

 

All that glitters in the warbling – dusty and rolling through leaf litter We called and called out to you – slot machine interloper, your glitter a TV movie your glitter a capitalism a desire for punching clocks. All that glitters is a last day for FREE SHIPPING a NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 62% off our magic giveaway. All that glitters is your blood splayed on the dart board we sell back to you at a discount we’ll take your sperm too. You’re invited to the bad news of tomorrow, the embarrassing video, the urgent meeting, the whining. All that glitters is a whore sandwich.

 

 

*from NaPoWriMo prompt Day 27

 

anagram poem

A feelers motile Harlot the monies Hoist your lily, tortoise A foreseen heist Smite the lithe, slap a blond Hem of a serif’s unrest Softer, forest Flies flies sheen heresy Flies flies sheer limn Emit time from dust motes File that elf fore it molts The rime of serfs Softer, forest Etherise the line of seethe Hello fins

apollonaire erasure

mirabeau bridge

Faerie Drill*

 

Each day must whimsy

A kindness, a cement truck

Calculus of the usual commute torture

 

Go under the microscope

Veins in the green over grey, grey over green, oops – the grey grey

The fairy fly terminate in hairlike fringe

 

Full body vibration as earth charged flesh with a zing zazz

Tectonic nerve tissue

Excavation of bones for romance

 

We held hands beneath the dirt

We wanted to be trees

 

*with thanks to Kevin for conjuring the concept of faerie drills