READ A POEM
Chinese Picture Jasper
by George Kaull
our memory
is a place
like chinese picture jasper
slow-cooked
by chaos hands’
ecology dice
remember
the red-maroon days
the mineral fields
of skeleton tree
& warm infinity sands
what luck we had then
the buffalo looked like ideas of buffalo
form black & soupy
drawing out division
of iron from ether
remember
the red-maroon days
when we shared blood & bone with dust
below the black sun
“Chinese Picture Jasper” by George Kaull, from Corolla. Outlandish Press, 2018. Used by permission of the author.
George Kaull grew up west of Cleveland chasing shadows between trees. He has been writing since he was a boy. Pinned between a dice game and watching flowers grow, he marches counterclockwise through our grateful dead parking lot of a life always looking for the right way to tell you. He recently published his first chapbook,
Corolla, with Outlandish Press. Follow him on
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WRITE A POEM
Write an imaginative (not literal) poem on how to get to the place you wrote an ode about yesterday.