(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 (27 publications)
two poemsgood grief i see you coming
i will not rush out to meet you
you've walked three years
through a ruined house to find me
holding onto sweetness going
trying to leave me
breathless
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three poemsThe ocean also
What is the matter of fact, anyway? The matter of floodplains,
calcite, desert bloom, the insistence of light in every shadow,
how when you wade into water you get to thinking what breaks
upon your body bends and flows around you
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three poemsfirst thing
to know i was not made by any man.
unmade by any man, i am a caravan of unmothered mothers
reaching in the pre-dawn dark toward—if not safety—
anything else. untethering from cruelty.
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two poemsi wasn't born patient—i made me this way. believing
the black birds show me. it took believing. when i say
i mean faith. i mean—could you look at me now and not
say miraculous? i call you just the same. my dove.
i am telling you. take what you lo
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