(Kate Greenstreet)
Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press and includes a DVD containing two short films based on the two sections of the book. Ahsahta published Greenstreet's case sensitive in 2006. She is also the author of three chapbooks, most recently This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, 2008). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Fence, Court Green, and other journals. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.
Two Poems
“one of the pages was just words”
We have to burn
everything
Our freedom
Open, in accordance
Lost
Knocked
A necessary work
A self-governing
body
First landings,
with so little known
“There must be a way.”
“Why?”
The enduring absence, still
a part, voice tells
Upon the first of home
Why do we quarrel?
Forgive me if it was my fault.
“may the blood cement”
She’s smart enough
and she’s been a servant.
Crossing the field
or frozen over lake. All men.
Before you were born.
To understand the difference
in blacks, add a little white.