A.M. Correa (Out of the Woods Now), our South American representative, sends along a nomination for Killarney Clary:
Spare prose poetry that inhabits the territory of the metaphysicals.
(Potential Stranger came out in 2003.)an excerpt from "Two Notes":
"When you are the scrub jay, taillights in the fog, when I am compelled to
find you everywhere, you still haven't arrived. I'm teased by the cloudy
fire opal, a country of albacore snarling on itself, future in waterdrops
beaded on a bare branch, shuddering free. They tell me there's warmth in
these clothes, that I was born from you, that you are gone."
More about Killarney Clary
+ Piece at the American Poetry Review
+ Brief profile at Salon
+ Five Poems at Ploughshares
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