A gorgeous, limited edition broadside of one of the winning poems from our First Annual Broadside Contest.
Brink by Anne Marie Rooney
We traintrack
We thunder to the dreaming men and I’m in the pool, loving
a man’s neck
We man’s neck and street,
meal a bloodless scuffle in hard light
What happens at night
Fear and the amok animal
Language in the kitchen with a scar
Lips we appled in Were There
and,
Not Married, Yet, to Honesty
To a rounded, blued-in room
Entree to woman’s house
This never happened, we sisters, we brinked
against red cars
Leave, she said
and I left my photo in her mouth
A gorgeous, limited edition broadside of one of the winning poems from our First Annual Broadside Contest.
Brink by Anne Marie Rooney
We traintrack
We thunder to the dreaming men and I’m in the pool, loving
a man’s neck
We man’s neck and street,
meal a bloodless scuffle in hard light
What happens at night
Fear and the amok animal
Language in the kitchen with a scar
Lips we appled in Were There
and,
Not Married, Yet, to Honesty
To a rounded, blued-in room
Entree to woman’s house
This never happened, we sisters, we brinked
against red cars
Leave, she said
and I left my photo in her mouth
Anne Marie Rooney is the author of Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012) and No Beautiful (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018). Her work has been twice featured in The Best American Poetry anthology. She currently lives in Baltimore and is a student in Expressive Arts Therapy.
