Jun 11, 2019
Casey Clague is my first featured poet who is local to me here in the Tampa Bay area. They just completed their MFA in Creative Writing from University of South Florida. Listen to them read a couple of poems and learn more about their future goals and their interest in literary criticism and what they do for the local literary/art community in Tampa.
http://yourartsygirlpodcast.com/episodes
Casey Clague holds an MFA from
the University of South Florida. They live in Tampa where they
cofounded the Read Herring reading series and serve as Assistant
Poetry Editor for Sweet: A Literary
Confection. Critical and creative work appears or is
forthcoming in Action,
Spectacle; Permafrost; Gravel;
ANATTA
Darling, according to physics,
with the air pulled out
from around
our atoms
and the atoms compressed,
we could fit in a sugar cube.
Humanity, I mean.
The skin-bound
divisions of us.
Finally, the closeness
we sought
when we pricked
our fingers to make blood
brothers and sisters.
What we came close to in sex
but even then
were separated
by a silk-thin veil of sweat.
Before entropy sends its tendrils
through our blank spaces,
crushes down our bodies
in city buses and offices,
let’s draw out the dead air.
Forget it like a hymn.
Don’t say:
In that viewless room
we would all just face
the center. What would we do
with ourselves?