as is

Sometimes i don't care
how i look or what i wear

i just get myself up
and get myself
out there

clearance (journal #06.03)

i got my life back
it went for almost nothin'
on the clearance rack
at walmart

KatYa selfie at home

On 'flash' or 'sudden' form -i)

 I wrote the freeverse piece below,
 in a 4-4-4-6-6 form.
The form felt really nice for my style,
and I may begin to use the form regularly...

http://kissilent.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/drafting-the-steam/


I am more and more confident in my ability
to write flash or sudden pieces. I still prefer writing
prose to poetry, though often I find myself whiddling a
flash piece I wrote, down into a freeverse poem.
The process is often very natural and leads me there.
Still I prefer the flash or sudden  form.

Flash and sudden are two names for basically
the same form. Usually prose, usually under 500 words.
The Chinese have been know to call it smoke-long. 
Meaning you can read the piece in the time
it takes to smoke a cig.

sudden one, too

Companion to sudden one...
http://kissilent.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/sudden-one


noon came and went
God gossiped about
on fm radio

Why are they
name dropping Jesus?

god i am tired
my neck and eyes hurt

all forty years of me
fall apart

Tomorrow when the
sky turns

i will roar like a tiger
to the whistle of steam

i will suck on ceramic
and coffee and cream

fuck all the noise
i got bluejean
dream


Katya Mills, 2013