Judith Roitman
from Invalid
Day 15.
In sun
forget
gesture
movement
delusion
unmade capacity
indecisive bird
in pine
choosing
one branch
another.
impossible to erase.
Day 32.
Why is the foot wet the hand
abraded the pedal
leaking the floor
a menace the thing
scattered the wrong places
the wrong fork his movement behind me.
Day 46.
Whose line whose enjambment what
status shifted kings go here
queens go here
such concentration for the
smallest movement
one molecule at a time
one molecule is all it takes
Judith Roitman has most recently published in december, Rogue Agent, E.Ratio, The Writing Disorder, Otoliths, Eleven Eleven, Horse Less Review, Talisman and Yew. Her recent chapbooks include Slackline (Hank’s Loose Gravel Press), Furnace Mountain (Omerta), Ku: a thumb book (Airfoil Press) and Two: ghazals (Horse Less Press). Her book No Face: Selected and New Poems (First Intensity) appeared in 2008. Her book Roswell (theenk Books) is scheduled to appear later this year (2018). She lives in Lawrence, KS.