Author: Josie Levin

  • Interstice

    Interstice

    It is not orange season and so the woman at the register charges two dollars extra to hunch over them – swaddle in my arms just a little bit longer There is a man at the park, jogging and does not stop so I cannot pet his dog and the dog and I eye each…

  • child psychics

    child psychics

    The kind of prophecies children give are more about showmanship than the world to come   to enlarge my pupils the way another hand shrank and growled under mine I used to think the things I did to people in my grasp were magic   but everyone can hit a muscle like this one and…

  • walk woods

    walk woods

    A homesick thing thinks about coyotes chewing on the inside more in the clearings walks past the cattails and thinks This used to be a marsh This wants to be a marsh again – pulls the stem off any dying dandelion and sees white blow out for the wind to eat   You might be…

  • Hillhiker

    Hillhiker

    I think that a hill is something that is just not quite a struggle to travel. I have climbed and been held in the climb of many hills. This hill is what it is and nothing more. I scaled it on my knees because it is easy to pretend anything is a struggle on your…

  • In the 3rd museum to kick me out

    In the 3rd museum to kick me out

        my arm between the jaws of a marble wolf security guards ripping … To unlock the rest of this poem, join the Circus!