It’s speckled
like a Pollock
It’s a horserace
without the thundering
Not too much a listening
more of a diligence,
small talk in the elevator
And the joy of
breaking it
Declarations of
hawk and roadkill
Then back to the process
of marking time,
a rest for
the retching
from The Waiting Room for the Imperfect Alibis, forthcoming from Kelsay Books, 2022
Australian-born Katrin Talbot’s collection The Waiting Room for the Imperfect Alibis is forthcoming from Kelsay Books and she has 7 chapbooks*, two Pushcart Prize nominations and quite a few chickens. She also makes noise on the viola in the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
*Wrong Number is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press and she has six other chapbooks, The Blind Lifeguard and Freeze-Dried Love, from Finishing Line Press, Attached: Poetry of Suffix, The Little Red Poem & noun’d, verb, from dancing girl press, and St. Cecilia’s Daze, from Parallel Press.
Photo by Ariana Karp
March 2022
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