Catherine Kelly: 'All over'

All over 

Spent a week out in the gummy suburbs
up on the flagpole
Whose streets? Let me run that
through the system. Take your big head
to the counter of the bank and crack it
open. Resurrection
has specific definitions, brooks no
drifting  ambered   seeking out
a living. Trespass is the norm
all over. Tenant humour
recklessly in place.

Take my learning
slowly, it’s a sin to
get too busy. Daly City’s
where I learned to marry scrub
& San Francisco YIMBYs. Hell’s not hot
til late July. Streets so wide I’m
losing focus. Drooling over
the Atlantic cells my
darling Land Wars raging villages of vision
sprang up where the blood came
down the kitchen sink & frying pans we tore up
on the gates of Brook House, if
you’re not my comrade let’s regret.

Catherine Kelly is a PhD student from Dublin, researching lesbian feminist
literary networks in the twentieth century. Her writing can be found in Spam,
Datableed, the Cardiff Review and the Dublin Review of Books.

Image by Amanda Earl.