Student Work: Poetry

THOUTZ
"'I wonder how/when i got so fucked up... my mind, existence, problem.' When Dylan Benet Klebold got covered up by this entity containing Dylan's body."

A Theory of Vermin
"Black gnats cross paths above / Layers upon layers minute, whirring / Blotting out pure blue"

Two Poems – Camila Arevalo
"For 3,000 livre a white man could lay / Under the church all rotting and wormy"—from "Saint-Domingue in the Summer"

125 2nd Avenue
"so blow the ash off my collarbones and / fill them with next door’s burning incense and indoor/ voices until there are no bricks on my ankles"

The Day I Left My Teddy Bear…
"25 messages / left / on an / answering / machine / and smoke-filled / drawings"

A Cento
"Nothing’s happened! / She mustn’t put strangeness where there is nothing." An automatic cento.

Hidden Treasures
"Slowly—in the corner—/Magnificence glanced the wonder colossal in his mind." An erasure poem.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s
"The world I know change / The world you're making me high / Tha crossroads twisted" 1996 remixed as Haiku