Night Feed by Cameron Morse

Faint heatchimney shimmeramid motesof snowdrifting at the edgeof sight teasing meinto a tentative belief * Night of disruptedsleep breachof insomnia I holdmy shockedawake inconsolableinfant daughter tomy overburdened chest Overloadedthe mistake I madewith the washing machine trapped in the samebroken cycle * After eight years on KeppraI’m tired allllthe time my patience wears waytoo thin and now the garden hosewon’t straighten kinking in my … Continue reading Night Feed by Cameron Morse

Genna RivieccioApril 7, 20212 Comments

Poetry

Stay-at-Home Order by Cameron Morse

I am a child, Ambrose. Today I celebrate my birthduring a pandemic. In my conical party hatI unwrap birthday presentsthough I did not ask, no one asks to be born. I did not choose to be marooned in my childhood homeother men strip of wood rotand reframe, repaint, after their own image. After theyhave finished, it will be as if I were never born. But OK, I’m sometimes OK with that. How many worlds … Continue reading Stay-at-Home Order by Cameron Morse

Genna RivieccioMay 11, 20201 Comment

Poetry

Carrot Cake by Cameron Morse

When you press in the bedroom dark and whisper because our son is sleeping your story of the long bus ride to my 24th birthday party, the bakeries you visited searching for a carrot cake because I said it was my favorite, in Yantai where there was no such thing, and the baker who approximated one based on your description of mine, I can almost … Continue reading Carrot Cake by Cameron Morse

Genna RivieccioMay 13, 20191 Comment

Poetry

Salome by Cameron Morse

—after Caravaggio’s John in the Wilderness at the Nelson-Atkins The Baptist as a teen virgin, lambskin draped over his cherubic genitals, rests in a tree trunk, his dark gaze directing me beyond the frame to the halter top and torn jeans of an art student standing near enough for him to scent her body spread. Like a serial killer, he feasts his eyes upon her. … Continue reading Salome by Cameron Morse

Genna RivieccioMarch 8, 2017March 8, 20172 Comments