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Moira Walsh
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Originally from Michigan, USA, Moira Walsh now calls southern Germany home – her poetry finding homes in a variety of Austrian and German journals. She's the author of Earthrise, and with Wilfried Schubert, Do Try This at Home. A founding member of Kollektief Dellgart, Moira has co-translated contemporary poets such as Olja Alvir, Ken Mikolowski, Halyna Petrosaniak, Maë Schwinghammer and others.
the poems
White noise, they say
as if it’s all one color.
But then there’s the Lake:
a rainbow
of sushing and loshing and ashing
and flishing and sething and hayshing
Apology to local vegetables
Sweet corn – hours old, stalk to table!
Oak-leaf lettuce, garlic scapes!
Beet greens, basil, cucumbers!
I’m sorry. On days like these
nothing can squeeze down my throat
except, after dark, some good
cheese and a weird combination
of transportation starches.
Removed
Small room, only the right
twin bed mine, half
the bookshelf, half the table
and one chair so half
time chair sitting
I miss those tranquilisers sometimes
wish I’d kept the ones they slipped
in a small paper envelope
for my test night at home
when the ward went up in smoke
someone set a bed on fire
and I missed it
Two weeks later the next arsonist
nurses changed the sheets too soon
fine ash everywhere
home again for a night
I missed that too
If I were still delusional
seeking connections at all costs
I would feel responsible
for incendiary
absence
Publishing credits
White noise, they say / Apology to local vegetables:
exclusive first publication by iamb
Removed: [kon] (Issue 10)