from SORROW ARROW
It's raining like a bitchy teenager
Spit on the carpet
I want to be your mom a little
Scars on our foreheads
from SORROW ARROW
Some poets got married 20 hours after meeting
“Beauty will be convulsive or it will not be at all” he said
I should have taken you out to sea like Blackbeard
Let’s walk through the mall and I’ll buy you an Orange Julius
The day after we met one of my tiny succulents fell from the windowsill
I took a walk to a nearby mountain and breathed against the gates of a reservoir
Have you heard about the Hadron Collider?
They smash particles together to find new matter
Once the machine got going so fast the currents blew out
With nowhere to go
I’m trying to believe in forgiveness
Under the earth’s pink blanket is a set of ribs
Too big, even, for this
from SORROW ARROW
It's too much
People with their falling down beauty
Their hats at angles
The woman DJ
You stand on some Cheetos
Nobody taught you anything but you kept expanding
Soft as plastic
biography
EMILY KENDAL FREY is the author of the full-length poetry collections Sorrow Arrow (Octopus Books) and The Grief Performance (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011); the chapbooks Frances (Poor Claudia, 2010), The New Planet (Mindmade Books, 2010), and Airport (Blue Hour, 2009); as well as three chapbook collaborations. Frey’s The Grief Performance was selected for the Cleveland State Poetry Center’s 2010 First Book Prize by Rae Armantrout. She also won the Poetry Society of America’s 2012 Norma Farber First Book Award. Frey’s poetry also appears in journals such as Octopus and The Oregonian.