tomb
pombs
tomb
(luck)
two
greet w/a palm
chest-high
their
other
hands
smudge up
to grip hair
so
stop your heart
or
use/watch your
head
or maybe
a
third thing:
where
r we?
tomb
O
sure
the main
news =
bestial arrival
of our
own blue flesh
but a
subtle dilation
of
surround
adds
sibilance
tomb
(electric)
in
this last S
of
dark this O
w/ a
little moldy
green
rim
awk
cable to it
press
press
sanguinating
man haunch
with
clinging cat
big-toothed
death
defend
your patch
tomb
14
sopped
with drizzle
look I
followed your
flute-flame
the
other tomb 14
actually
impure
meaning
closed
tomb
( )
say
end
(what
was their)
else
it’s just one
more
room’s articulations
of
money
but
salted by love
too
the stone test
touching
feet
but no
rubbing
cicadas
tomb
(rule)
what you need down here:
a good
little barrel of air
Terri Witek’s many books of poetry include her 2023 collection, Something’s Missing in This Museum and a new chapbook: copies: I loved you in the hard old way (2024 Sigilist Press). Down Water Street is forthcoming from aboveground press next year: W/\ SH , a collaboration with poet Amaranth Borsuk ,loops the eco-emergency as a crisis of rain and smoke between worlds and is forthcoming in Oct. Her work has been included in many anthologies, including 2 from 2021: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset) and the WAAVe (Women Asemic Artists and Visual Poets) Global Gallery. Witek's individual and collaborative work has been featured in a wide variety of text venues, including Fence, The Colorado Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Slate, Hudson Review, Lana Turner, The New Republic, Utsanga, and many other journals and anthologies.
With Brazilian visual
artist Cyriaco Lopes (cyriacolopes.com) Witek co-founded Poetry in the Expanded
Field in Stetson University’s low-residency MFA of the Americas; the duo also
lead The Fernando Pessoa Game at the Disquiet International Literary Program
each summer in Lisbon. Their two decades of collaborative text/image work as
cyriacolopesterriwitek has been featured at ARCO in Madrid and in Seoul, Chania
(Crete), Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Lisbon, Valencia, Spain and many other
arts and literary venues. terriwitek.com