Just Out: Jonathan Skinner's With Naked Foot

19 poems in a 36-page book, with photos by the author. limited press run. $7 + $1 postage


Meeting

The depth of this is not
ephemeral
is a knot of purple
staining the heart in
the coroner's gaze

is the sound of pleasure
put in your mouth
in the conjunction
of two bodies
in a dark alley

of good fortune where
that heart beats
out another night
in another life
in yet another town


--from With Naked Foot


Miriam Atkin on "Meeting":
Memory of missing conjunctions is in shapes of the body. How deep is the meaning of a particular conjoining? Wounded organs, sounds put into mouth, and conjunctions are of a family. Heart beats on a night. Sounds are put in mouth. The meaning of one meeting differentiates from the sequence of things. It refuses to participate. It is where everything else is not.


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