dancing girl press, 2012
$7.00
Katie Jean Shinkle is author of three chapbooks, most recently As Close to Smiling as You Can Get (The Cupboard, forthcoming). Other work can be found in or is forthcoming from Third Coast, Salt Hill, Puerto del Sol, Blackbird, and elsewhere. She is currently a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of Denver.
from Sadness of July:
When does the body become moving out
And where do you go
Where does the body go
When does a mortuary become a post office,
when does a memoriam become perpendicular
as in when do we remember we have to go
door-to-door to sell this body,
to see this body go, to sustain this body,
to be in this body we must say the right
words. When did you stop saying the
right words.
When does the body become happenstance.
When does the body become
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