Turbula - Summer 2004 - state of the nation


Volume III, Issue II	Summer 2004

state of the nation

About Erica Woiwode

Erica Woiwode is finishing her Master's thesis in creative writing (original poetry) at California State University, San Marcos. She is a writing and music teacher. Her poetry has been published in Academic Exchange Extra for four consecutive months, L.A. Miscellany (Los Angeles), The Poetry Conspiracy (San Diego) and the Cal State San Marcos Pride Literary Supplement.

By Erica Woiwode

on the grey sidewalks
of a million
small towns
the dead light
shines on
blood stained
sorrow mongers –

the church of trash –

as we kick our
emotional baggage
out the back
gate into
the sewers of
rotted trees
fucked under
the sun
and
dead animals –

we
never
stop
running –

after God
after sex
after taxes
aftermath

what is there?

falling
falling
falling
falling

if you lose
your
shoes,
the
snow
is thicker,
the
lines
are thicker,
the
brain
is thicker –

in older times
we were
even madder –

but now
we bleed
more
in the
blue plasma
of misunderstood
dust and bones

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