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Two poems by Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon

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Meet Cute

Summer an anti-shadow, diamond-bladed,
and you, the soft-bodied starfish, the bell,
a slim book to be opened. Patience,

profusion. Nothing less than a pageant:
caught breath and the current, pulling
and pulling and pulling and pulling.

 

Barn Sour

I dig my heels in and wish
for spurs: she must be pushed
from the stall into the field.

But close to home, she hastens
on her own. I rock like a rowboat
in my saddle, grip the horn.

We hope to break her, teach her
no difference between the exile
and the arrival.

 

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Katherine Fallon

Katherine Fallon's poems have appeared in Juked, Apple Valley Review, Colorado Review, Meridian, Foundry, and others, and her work will be featured in Best New Poets 2019. Her chapbook, The Toothmakers' Daughters, is available through Finishing Line Press. She teaches at Georgia Southern University, and shares domestic square footage with two cats and her favorite human, who helps her zip her dresses. Visit katherinefallon.com and Instagram @ghostelephants.

Author: Katherine Fallon Tags: poetry Category: Poetry May 17, 2019

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