by McKenzie | Nov 29, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
Out on a walk, I saw two girls screaming through a two-seater swing, two fans of blonde hair. There was a hill in the way, shoulder-high, and they were nameless, without bodies, the way birds might appear when lying in their nest. I left them against a...
by McKenzie | Nov 29, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
You are becoming too much for me. I find it difficult to read poetry, to read anything. I roll onto my side, the book turning with me, and I feel your body drop onto the bed, weighing me there, small anchor. My lungs have learned a new method of breathing....
by McKenzie | Nov 28, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
You of average size but I was so small, so small they opened my middle like a mouth the incision is clean, straight, but it was in that moment, jagged— layers of skin cut, the muscles intact and spread open like wire you were inside, waiting; you had been...
by McKenzie | Oct 15, 2014 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog
Wonderful news! My chapbook (or chapbook-length poem), Dear Earth / There Are Birds, received an Honorable Mention in this year’s Celery City Chapbook Contest. Here is the list of Winners and Honorable Mentions: CJ Giroux, Destination, Michigan, Winner...
by McKenzie | Oct 13, 2014 | Blog, My Poems
—after Ralph Angel You wake me in the middle of the night, and you are hungry. You are ravenous. The moon is...
by McKenzie | Sep 29, 2014 | Blog
Mark your calendars! Betsy Andrews will be reading this Wednesday—October 1, 2014—at Indiana University South Bend, hosted by 42 Miles Press and the English Department. Betsy’s...
