Street Writer

Jessie Carty

 

 

He sways

from hip to hip

pumps his fist

like retro

Arsenio

beat-boxing

against

commercialism

 

I believe

 

His words wail

and I am cleft

 

His sentences beg

and we taste

tangerine

as our lips

speak together

   

 

 

 

Jessie Carty's work has appeared in such journals as MAGIE, Weave and The Northville Review. She has two chapbooks in print At the A & P Meridiem (Pudding House 2009) and The Wait of Atom (Folded Word 2009). Her first full length collection, Paper House, is to be released in 2010 by Folded Word Press. 

 

 

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