Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021
nadinehitchiner
German poet and author of the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Published in Red Ogre Review, Anomaly, The Lumiere Review & others.
Germany
Books
Selected work (8 publications)
Like The Men in My Family "And if we took the road, we drove in an old Honda.
And if we drove in a Honda,
there was mother’s perfume beneath the throttle,"
poetry
Darius, I've Stopped Imagining Things"In the motel room,
I see my mother's flares, two-stepping
in the curtains. My dad's perm
in the carpet-
chunk, lifted by the skirting
boards that widen towards the corner: "
poetry
Seagull Pantoum"It seems I've known you for the length of music beneath my skin -- Lord
sometimes that is only yesterday. "
poetry
On Birds, Tristan, My Loneliness as Kafka's Diaries"Mama sews me a skirt
to wear to church. The seam
only kissed the sewing
machine
& after the sermon
it confesses like wings
that lay bare their frame with each flight."
poetry
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