EXCERPT: from Ellen Kennedy’s Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs (#2)
Brighter and Clearer
After I have an orgasm my body feels like a sombrero-shaped galaxy slowly expanding in the eyepiece of a 4th grader’s telescope
After I watch a family of lions tear apart the body of a large deer on the Discovery Channel I feel a calming sense of inferiority
After I watch a horror movie I can’t go to the bathroom without you holding my hand while I pee
After I take my vegan dietary supplement my piss is brighter and clearer
After I kiss your eyelids my lungs squeeze out through my ribs, then through my belly button and slowly fly to your face and push very lightly on your cheeks
After I forget something I said I would remember my brain becomes a roll of vegetable futomaki that an obese chinchilla is trying to eat all in one bite
After I make you cry one of my organs melts into a runny paste that trickles down the inside of my body and collects at the bottom of my feet
After I make you feel indifferent towards me my heart turns into a small desert hamster running very quickly on an exercise wheel and then tripping and then spinning around in distress until the wheel stops and the hamster can get up and try running again, but in a more conscious and concerned way
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After I read Ellen Kennedy my heart turns into a small dessert hamster.
After I read Ellen Kennedy my heart turns into a small dessert hamster.
A dessert hamster? Is that like a chocolate rabbit?
A dessert hamster? Is that like a chocolate rabbit?
A dessert hamster is sort of like ortolan. An acquired taste, to be sure.
A dessert hamster is sort of like ortolan. An acquired taste, to be sure.
i cant even say whether i’m a huge fan of Kennedy’s. I’ve only read the poems you’ve posted here. And one other poem not.
But I dig this.
i cant even say whether i’m a huge fan of Kennedy’s. I’ve only read the poems you’ve posted here. And one other poem not.
But I dig this.
When I got to the end of this poem I turned into a wood shaving at the bottom of a dessert hamster’s cage. Moments later someone ate the dessert hamster and dumped me into a trash can. I don’t know if that’s good or not.
When I got to the end of this poem I turned into a wood shaving at the bottom of a dessert hamster’s cage. Moments later someone ate the dessert hamster and dumped me into a trash can. I don’t know if that’s good or not.
I read Ellen’s book in one sitting a few weeks ago and have been looking forward to reading it again soon.
She’s doing some wonderful things in this poem, starting with the micro, the human body, and broadening out to the macro, outer space, but viewed through telescopic glass, through a young person’s eyes.
There’s some silliness here but that’s half the fun. It’s playful. Until that last line, when the hamster returns to the wheel “in a more conscious and concerned way.” It was then that I went back to the beginning and re-read what she was trying to say. And after that I re-read the title.
Thank you for posting these.
I read Ellen’s book in one sitting a few weeks ago and have been looking forward to reading it again soon.
She’s doing some wonderful things in this poem, starting with the micro, the human body, and broadening out to the macro, outer space, but viewed through telescopic glass, through a young person’s eyes.
There’s some silliness here but that’s half the fun. It’s playful. Until that last line, when the hamster returns to the wheel “in a more conscious and concerned way.” It was then that I went back to the beginning and re-read what she was trying to say. And after that I re-read the title.
Thank you for posting these.
This poem is much more interesting than the last one. I get the feeling that she’s naturally a prose writer.
The first poem you posted seemed to me banal. The language and imagery here are just a lot more lively.
This poem is much more interesting than the last one. I get the feeling that she’s naturally a prose writer.
The first poem you posted seemed to me banal. The language and imagery here are just a lot more lively.
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