Matthew Johnstone • Eater, of Mouths
Matthew Johnstone • Eater, of Mouths
Poetry. 34 pages. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-9992103-0-7 For digital versions, click here.
Matthew strips language to the root of interaction, teasing the reader into slowing down and then wondering if haste was intended. Each word is carefully placed to portray the actuality of experience in snippets of stories and carvings of images.
Example:
Our place
orbits
itself / it
packs the
continent / & we
feral in.
Citizens of
that
rust / deaf,
repeating
out / to
kept
glares /
is it
loose / suns
tilt
buildings
to caves / or
widen /
throats
watching
maul.
-from Alligators