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Kristen D. Scott

Sass

 

her mind; a mazurka,

brambling Polish tropes

the Eucharist;

a pictorial one

 

clicking pointed-wooden

clogs of yesteryear.

she is 40

stepping this Slovak

 

beat. Well, actually, 44.

The last turn catches

her off-guard, but her

partner doesn´t mind

 

his cock is only 28.

“meow."

“meow."

 

she still loves the jealousy.

 

Digression (after Eugene O´Neill)

            “And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment                                                                                to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.” 
                                                ― Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh

 

in my drunken-mind, gorillas are mocking me.

Earlier, I read a college student braved a ridiculous terrain,

hiking miles to “save” the gorilla species. What made him

choose this path? Did he suddenly wake up after fucking

a raven-haired co-ed, hungover, smelling of b.o. and sex,

“today I am going to endanger my life, for a gorilla.”

 

Maybe they will capture him, stuff a banana in his dry-

mouth – probe him. Surgeons will stretch him out for

a lobotomy, stick him behind bars, charging admittance.

“The little monkey knows sign language, teenagers will grunt.

He will crouch, hunching to their wide-eyed stares,

and shit while they watch.

 

 

Kristen D. Scott  is a nominee of the Pushcart prize in poetry for five works from her 2014 collection OPIATE. She is  an award-winning essayist for her work on Federico Garcia Lorca and his books the Divan del Tamarit, Poet of the Deep Song, and essay, "The Duende." 

 

She has published in several Anthologies, newspapers, and ezines, including the San Diego Poetry Annuals, Nomos Review, Perigee, Alesbuyia, and published two poetry collection from Garden Oak Press; LIAISONS (2012) and OPIATE (2014). She has also been translated into Arabic, Albanian Turkish and Sanskrit. Her recent publication was featured poet in MeArteka (May, 2015) where she had several poems translated into Albanian. Her new and selected poems are forthcoming from Garden Oak Press in September 2015. 

 

Scott is currently the Editor-In-Chief, founder, and web designer

of KNOT Magazine, holds a MFA in Creative Writing, MA in English Literature, and is progressing with her Ph.D in Global Education and Comparative Literature.

 

Originally from Colorado, Scott has resided on the Riviera in Türkiye, where she has lived for several years.

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