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Kristen Henderson

I tell you once and for all—in front of the angel pictures on the wall, that I am not a host to load-bearing ghosts or headyentities, and if I was ever holy, I have fallen farinto the dense atmosphere of the living.

angels, atmosphere, dense, ghost, holy, human, picture, wall

Kristen Henderson

Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?

love, love-poem, poem, sea, setting-sun, sinking, sunset

Kristen Henderson

And the sculptors will shape the soil for the writers to stretch the seedsfor the patient painters who sketch the petals they will shade in alabaster and gold. Their sweat is the rain. Maybe the jazzman will send us a rose.

alabaster, gold, jazz, painters, petals, rose, soil, writers

Kristen Henderson

…you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.

alone, loneliness, note, poem, poems, poetry, telescope

Kristen Henderson

Through a trick lighting technique the skyline was made and faded with the care of a pointillist— maybe aiding us to think nothing was missing. We traded verbsabout what was happeningin the metropolis, realizing,in the scorched plum of dusk,actual human infinity was occurring on an island before us….

911, city, dusk, metropolis, new-jersey, new-york-city, plum, pointilist, sundown, twilight, twin-towers

Kristen Henderson

She was so cool, as she knew, ankles crossed at the puckered hem of granite gray sweatpants, and she also knew I was watching from the open doorof the B train—watching her pose in apparent comfort at the girder of this city thoroughfare.

b-train, city, cool, girl, granite, gray, hem, new-york, nyc, sweatpants

Kristen Henderson

It was as if someone had leftthe bird thereas a kind of telegramof feathers, oily feathersthat looked like they’d struggled,shuttered a little before letting gointo flightforever.

bird, death, fathers, finch, flight, forever

Kristen Henderson

Dear Anonymous, I’ve got a secret I know you can keep it because you don’t really exist….This is what shapes you, this is what makes you as authentic as you are fake.

anonymous, authentic, fake, real, secret

Kristen Henderson

A giant motherboard of geese,unruffled by the statepolice, swarmed in unison,in harmony…

geese, harmony, highway, motherboard, police, swarm, swarmed, unison, unruffled

Kristen Henderson

Once lively peonies nowwind-weary, and ragged at the edges, hang their heavy crowns; rain on their backs,one final act, beforedetaching from the stemand falling down.

beat, crown, death, falling-down, heavy, peonies, peony, rain, stem, tired, warning, weary, wind

Kristen Henderson

The outfit, tight in places, and loose in some, says as much in the buttons as it does in cuffs.

artifice, artless-poem, button, clothes, cuffs, fashion, loose, outfist, perfect-poem, persona, tight

Kristen Henderson

In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on.

barack-obama, jim-crowe, michelle, slavery, songs, south, us-history, white-house