← All topics
body
422 pieces
One of us is still alive and will prove it.
The shortest sentence in my autobiography is one word
‘Cimex lectularius Linnaeus’
The Storm
The Mustache
Darling
Portrait of Madame X
Small Songs of the Body
“George Ferrandi’s ‘fellow feelings’ by Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Liminality, Place, and Poetry
Art Institute
The Blood’s Unwritable Psalm
The Hunted
The Sound of My Unhearing
Zombie Apocalypse Now: Survival
Ode to My Pectus Excavatum
Ghost Letter
Mushrooms on the Roadside
Irinotecan
Self-Portrait
Rocking Chair
The Blood
Confession
Deluge
Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare
My Friend Tells Me I’ve Got to Stop Letting My Enemies Live Rent Free in My Head
In a Land Where Everything Is Trying to Kill You, I Teach You to be an Autotomist
Review by Brandon Young | “Deluge” by Leila Chatti
Art School Studies
Nigredo (The Precondition for Circumstance)
Courtesy and Horror
Scar 21
Scar 26
Francis Bacon Swallows the Head Whole,
Firing Squad
Big Heart, Little Heart
Imaging
Week 25: Rutabaga
Jennary: Hinterland
Heaven
In the Rough
The Olive
Untitled (the dream is crying )
Essay on the Order of Time
Why I Left Academe for Massage Therapy
So Many Promises
Diorama (a moment with the doctor)
Diorama (trapper standing over a young woman in a blue dress)
Diorama (young woman lying on the ground in a blue dress)
spell for their belly buttons/ with a dictionary clogging its windpipe
Meet You at the Dollar General Across from the Family Dollar
Deciduous Ode
Two Women
Puberty with Self-Portrait as Tiffky Doofky
Fragments Reconstructed from a Poem
To My Hips, Both Removed
Mother, before Cremation/Me, Standing before a Mirror Later
Unwoven
My Daughter Gets Her Wisdom Teeth Extracted
Weightless
Desire
Thirstiness is Not Equal Division
Molly McCully Brown
Post-Op Letters in the Field Between Us
Lazarus
Polyphemus, Shy & Likely on the Spectrum, Loves
Steel-Jaw
Blood
Geisha Madrigal
St-Germain Madrigal
Mate Madrigal
Review | Circadian, by Chelsey Clammer,
The Way I Scream
Rapunzel, with Contrast
Biophilia
there are jawless fish
sometimes kicked rocks don’t land where
What Yields
Inside excitement is a strand of terror
Review | Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash
Ida's Boots
Bone
Eve, clownin’ Adam
God asked me, like he asked Job, Can you loosen Orion’s belt?
That Century
While Falling to Sleep
Annunciation
Eve as 16-Year-Old Girl Who Eats an Earthworm on a Dare
Eve as Girl with Snake Duty in 7th Grade Science
Helen Keller at the Rodeo
The Glass Sonata
Soft Action
The Troubles of Men: Holometaboly
Hamlet
Audrey Munson, The American Venus, Reimagines Her Life as Still Life
How to Remember
At a Stranger’s Funeral
In Which St. Irene, Born Penelope, Is Spared by Beasts of Water, Earth and Sky
Cooper’s Hawk
Amor Fati
Lavinia, Afterwards
Philomela After the Metamorphosis
Door
Soap
Oldest Squirrel Monkey in Captivity
The Polygrapher
The Chimpanzee
Twist-O-Flex
October Chorus
Consort (Carriage & Miscarriage)
Black Snow
Coat The Skillet
Licking Light
How Long Have You Been Sleeping, Snow?
Mr. Hen
Letter 15
Letter 2
Letter 5
Letter 7
Derivation Devotional
Review | There Should Be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
The Language of the Heart
The Stable Ambivalence
We Drag Our Feet near the Stingrays
Word for the 21st Century
Planet of the Aged
The Reader
Self-Deliverance with a Line from George Herbert
When My Childless Friend Asks What the Birth Was Like
The Mermaid Who Wants to Play House Finds Only Wrecked Ships to Live In
Fable
Body Bags
Karen Greenlee
Epitaph on a Stone
What is the most venomous animal?
Instinctive Drowning Response
If the Girl Refuses
Seven Deadly Sins
When I Started to Cry
Review | Constellarium, by Jordan Rice
Review | Boy with Thorn by Rickey Laurentiis
Nähstunde
Sewing Time
Composition 2
Razor
Finger
Ugly
The Rebecca Portraits, Paul Strand, 1920-1932
The Morning Mail
Considering the Girl, Hilda Dahlgren
Fat
What Is It Like to Get Punched in the Face?
c(on)ta(in)er
On Memory
Firefly
Pre-Op
Accidental
This Is a Love Story
On Flesh
Caesura
Coda
The Auspices
ne·pen·thes
Snail
Disciplining the Body
Rosalie Ruth Moffett
I Sing the Body Aquatic
Dear Animal
He Thinks in Squares and Melted Grass
I Saw Everything
Influenced
Six Explanations for Migraine
Sea Cow
Vivisecting
Writing Through the Body
Examination
Changeling
Pretty Redbird
from Dear Herculine
from Dear Herculine
from Dear Herculine
from Dear Herculine
from Dear Herculine
An Early Nude by Rothko
Horoscope
Bird Ephemera
Lacuna
A Partial Ledger: Dr. C.D. Bennett
Eros:
Leda
Tattooed
Romanticism (the Blue Keats)
The Swan Girl
This Life with Bees
Idiot’s Guide to Counting
how to draw seven circles
Elegy Addressed (Atom Cloud, Hand)
A Conversation about Desire
The Dimensions of the Anomaly
Epcot Center, August ’88
Everyone Here Is a Tourist
Aria
Heart
Cassowary
Harvest
Honey,
Without Like or As
Catullus: Carmina, XXXIX
Metamorphic Diary
Myopia: A Cartography
I’ll Make Dinner Tonight
Voice of a Silhouette
New Food
Sonnet
Hourglass I
Hourglass II
Idiopathic Aura
Idiopathic Aura: Artist’s Introduction
Caroline Wright: On Tom Condon’s Idiopathic Aura
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #346: ‘The Banks Have Begun to Contract’
The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, Line #4646:‘Vegetation Grows Rapidly’
Vectors
Radical Primaticism
La Strada
A new science
Note Left for My Former Self
Aberration
[For fury the Penitent may say]
[When gluttony is less than ruinous]
[Let my husband know]
[უთხარით ჩემს ქმარს]
Ritual with Seven Selves
It Seems Like a Poem Should Smile Wide, with Rotten Teeth 2
We fear the undulant
Fontanels
Landscape: trillium
Love in the Time of Revolution
Dear Claudia—
Lucy,
Lucy wraps salmon
Limb Factory
The Ocularist
The Hungering Eucalyptus
II. To Have & To Hold
Ramadan Nocturne
Another Horizontal Lyric
Thrombosis
Biosentimentality
Recollect
Such Insomnia and the Shape
The Leopard’s Mouth Is Dry And Cold Inside
The Wine
The Geography of Anatomy by County
Martha Talks Evolutionary Theory of Anatomy
Chronos
A Coin-Operated Paramour and a Half
Snowbound
Solo on Nudity
Thallium
Hall of the Imperial Silkworm
At the Chinese Opera
The Nervous System Speaks
Out of Pain
If Never the Why then at Least the How
Wynona’s Hiatus
Prayer
Review | Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life, by Sandra Beasley
A Man Writes ‘Human’ and is Not Punished
The Replacement Wife
Resuscitation
Tetanus, Amy Beeder
Hand
but for us they
Magician’s Girl
Dear P., XXII
Pete
Cannibals
Portrait of a One-legged Hero
I am the city and you are my work of great mischief.
From Three Words of a Magnetic Poetry Set Found Caked in Dirt Beneath James Merrill’s Last Refrigerator
Offhanded
Virtue
Review of I Was the Jukebox by Sandra Beasley
Landing
To Contain
To Sustain Distress
Hawking in Zero-G
Instructions for Dematerializing
Still Life with Levitating House/Wife
Ochre xv
Ochre xxi
Photographs by Lalla Essaydi: L’Écriture Féminine / Le Corps Féminin
A Reading by Michele Young-Stone, Blackbird
Birthmark
When What Is Lost Is Said
On Balston Beach
This Is the Brain, W.Todd Kaneko
Delivered
Epithalamion
Sixteen Poems
Review of Taste of Cherry by Kara Candito
Deaf Spots
It’s Love that Pushes Stockings Down, M. L. Brown
Outdoor Room
Natural Bridge
Doppler
Near Sleep in a Smoky Room
Slow Saunter of Wither
As I Remember It
Disabled Odyssey
Practice
Tidal Volume
“I”
“I”
“I”
“I”
Police Report, November 25, 2007
Moth, Horse, Accident, Skin
Restoration Portrait
Catalog Note: Article of Venusian Handicraft
Self-Portrait with an Ice Pick
Dear P. XXIII
Dear P. XXIV
He Has Given His Face to the Waters of the Lake
The Upstairs Notebook
New Direction
Patina: A Triptych
A Reading by Chris Abani
Prayers to a Young God
Post-Op
Unnatural Selection
Remnant
Flashes
Self-portrait as a butter-churner
A cradle of warmed oats for the chickens on the Epiphany
Spring in Phoenix: An answer to the vanishing God
Walking Angry in That City
Review of Just Breathe Normally by Peggy Shumaker
Arts and Science, Act One
Arts and Science, Act Two
Arts and Science | Characters and Setting
Arts and Science, Introduction
Fragment 13 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Fragment 14 from a Nonexistent Yiddish Poet
Synchronized Swimming
How to Measure Your Breast Size, Laura M. Wiesman
Basketball Is Not a Drug
Drowning
Three A.M.
Fertility
Lemon Breast of the Virgin Mary
A New Faith, Liliana V. Blum
Three Fluid Graces
Snow Goggles: Whalebone and Sinew
Opening the Hive
Skateboarder
Love Light (Shadenfreude)
Motion Makes Us Cough
Selected Imagery Based on Physical Gesture
The Melancholy Tailor
Breast-Feeding Across America
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Karina Peisajovich | Painting, Light, & Shadow
Good Samaritan Points
Paperwhites
Undertow
Juliet and Air
Juliet and Heaven
From a Distance, I Saw Bird
Safe From Trains
Under the Volente Raft
Disposing of the Body
Adaptation Syndrome | Curators' Introduction, III
Colorization
The State-Line Stripper
Blood Feathers
Smile
How to Deliver a Baby in a Taxicab
Dream Bardo
Tank
Review | The World in Repair: Steve Gehrke's The Pyramids of Malpighi
Sarah Bednarek | Podium Gestures
The Garden of Sex
The Garden of Sex II
Sleepy
Dried Preparation of the Hand
Torso No. 3 (Curved Spine)
Five-Minute Exposure, Large Format
Here Is the Church
Blackbird Feature, R. H. W. Dillard, Review | Florida, by Christine Schutt, June 16, 2004
Zip Drive
Eat of This Tree
Placebo
Baby Won't You Please Come Home
After Science
Lullabye
Richard
Untitled, with Peonies in Bloom
Self-Portrait with Eyes Closed
How to Keep Busy While Your Fiancé Climbs Mount Everest
The Shower Wall
Lung
Professional Cinderella: Disney World Employee Profile
Arms of the Snake
The University Investigation Into My Classroom Pedagogy
The Scenery of Farewell (and Hello Again)
A Commission
Blackbird Feature, Oh Lucy, by Chris Burnside, September 16, 2003
Learning to Use the Stick
Critical Care
Book of the Body
Letter from the Ground Floor
Still Missing the Jays
Swoon
Turning, D. James Smith
Pineal
Past Immaculate
What the Deaf Long to Hear
Disappearing Act
Yes?
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002
Blackbird Feature, Elizabeth King, September 16, 2002