Poetry by Koss

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Grandma I haunt your home
years later the lavender
in your drawer sings ghost
how can you be so still
and how can the grass be
grass above you
just down the road from here
your silver hair encased
in silvered blue 
I shadow in your frigid chair
and my nails have ridges
just like yours
and my hair now shivers silver 
and someday too the grass
will be grass above me

(originally published in San Pedro River Review)




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First Address: Flint: Dort Motel

A cinder-blocked life in one room 
gray and muted jade green 
full of sofa which unfolds         
into boat 
with four of us crimped in the hull
in our convenience of skin
shaggy sea seen from the starboard
and you with your wee feet dangling:
suspended





Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect

You wish to be young again
             so you buy an Aurora Frankenstein kit
                           sniff the lemony glue and paint it with enamel / half-assed
                                          display it on your bedroom shelf / homage to a stranger child
You wish to be young again
             so you wrap yourself in lamé and a boa
                           and dance around the folding chairs / drunk and thumping
                                          like nobody ever told you / you dance like an asshole
You wish to be young again
             so you join a gym and spin to deafening rock ‘til you puke
                            and the fat rolls off your frame like a yarn tongue
                                         and you parade your small-town renewed gay ass to no one
You wish to be young again / life just slides away down the strip mall ramp...

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Koss is an artist, writer and web designer with over 200 visual and written publications in journals and anthologies. Recent and forthcoming publications include MoonPark Review, Sage Cigarettes, Beaver Magazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, (Re) An Ideas Journal, Permafrost Magazine, Cutbow Quarterly, Petrichor, and SoFloPoJo. Find links to Koss's work at https://koss-works.com and connect on Twitter @Koss51209969 and Instagram @koss_singular.