(in)different mathDancing Girl Press, 2012
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Kristin Lueke is a Chicana poet living in northern New Mexico.
Santa Fe, NM, United States
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Selected work (34 publications)
two poemsthree crows come to my door every day. i give them peanuts.
they give me everything else—company, questions, conversation,
though it tends to stay one way. i play them buena vista social club,
they play with fire, taunting the towhees behind the rose
my husband was an animali do not mean a metaphor. i feed him salmon
in september & astonished him with weight.
told him buy land, buy a truck, better yet,
buy nothing. watch birds & sleep
four thousand hours.
reasons not to set myself on fireeverything i’ve been will be different
one day. i’m hardly more than any moment,
more than anything at all. i wanted to say
before i go.
we don't do math on sundaysno strange bird sings alone. this is how i say you are not now, nor will
you ever be alone. it’s true, a feeling is not a fact. i find it no less real.
see: my disastrous attempts to feel whole in the morning. a hand
placed on your back.
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