Poetry — October 8, 2012 15:30 — 0 Comments

A Shade of Black – Courtney Hitson

Black like batting eyelashes. As if a black squandering of itself. Stampedes of spiders. Black like a blur of relief. An undulating black behind pursed lips. As if needing psychiatric quarantine. A dissipating black.  As if black fur riding currents of wind. A disturbance as the sung chorus of a cult. Disorientation of black. As if the surfacing potential of my cruelty. As if a stranger cupping a shoulder. A black unsettling as a swarm. As if the horror of a blameless torture. Inadequate black brush strokes. As if the swaying black space between my fractured selves. As if to paint the pull of magnets. A black evidencing the abyssal gravity.

 

Bio:

Courtney Hitson recently earned her MFA in poetry from Columbia College Chicago.  Her poems have appeared in NAP, Foundling Review, Ilk, Arsenic Lobster, and are forthcoming in Heavy Feather. Her scholarly interests include cognitive rhetorical theory, cognitive neuroscience, theoretical and particle physics, and pedagogical studies.  Her non-scholarly interests include freestyle unicycling, anatomy, and compulsive doodling.  She teaches undergraduate English in downtown Chicago.

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What am I?

Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies

Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;

Scientists can't find me.

Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—

Remind me:

The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…

Tick, Tock: Divine me.

-- Richard Kenney