Inside Weather
Mildew and sunlight
eBay dreams of thrift shop baby dolls
Too many pennies in a glass pig
my gladness breaks the bank
Move the eye of the needle
move the I out of sight.
To a Cabin in the Thin Woods
A wilder life exists beyond the thin trees. Stop talking about Sisyphus, no one wants to know about the boulder you roll up the hill every day. No one want to hear about your limestone corset, that you will be working long after everyone else has gone home. They want to hear that broken glass is language.
In the mid-’90s, Brenda Coultas moved to New York City to work as staff at the Poetry Project. Her books include The Marvelous Bones of Time (2008) and A Handmade Museum (2003) from Coffee House Press. Coultas’ more recent works, both from Wesleyan University Press, include The Tatters (2014), an elegy to print, and The Writing of an Hour, an ars poetica (2022).