by McKenzie | Jan 30, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series
CHIONOPHOBIA —Fear of Snow Fluttering ash dissolves on your brother’s tongue. He thinks of you building a fort from snow before you knew what...
by McKenzie | Jan 29, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series
PROVINCES Where the old trees reign with their forward dark light stares through a hole in the body’s long house. The bed rolls away from the body, and the body is forced to find a chair. At some hour the body sequesters itself in a shuttered room with...
by McKenzie | Jan 28, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series
THE SPIRIT SAYS, YOU ARE NOTHING: Because you haven’t praised anything in months, You walk down to the river and study one ripple Above a dead tree Until it is almost dark enough For the moon to whiten it, But it does not, And so you put your hand out,...
by McKenzie | Jan 22, 2016 | Blog, My Poems
Hello all! It’s been a while again, I know. I’ve been missing writing in the worse way but otherwise wrapped up in my new job, writing a new bio: McKenzie lives and writes in South Bend, where she works at Indiana University, etc. It’s been a...
by McKenzie | Dec 13, 2015 | Poem of the Day Series
TO BE SEEN Forgive me for taking the tone of a preacher. You understand, a dying man Must have a point—not that I am Dying exactly. My doctor tells me I’ll live Longer than most since I see him More than most. Of course, he cannot be trusted...
