Five Poems
Irene Koronas
115
cuckold
her swine ribs
shrink
to fit the creampuff
slice after slice
saint fame
holy accolades
only god can creep
to attach confess
to a casket
to vault a guttural r
pure greek thorns
rip off the chord
120
smoke houses overlap
like puritan parades
riskistuff
most convert
to the bland middle
of dread
105
shadowbox
behind a venetian blind
an easy crank
the tin graffiti
the drag lash
the young rag
from skin
25
upstairs paint leaks
by gash
neck and rape
soft incest roses
pour arsenic
in porcelain
finger frag
rub testis
to spurt
6
humunculi
pin one to a nosegay
poinsettia
lipstick
a special prom
six is evil
go straight to seven
slide
a decimal
Irene Koronas is the author of 8 collections of poetry and collaborative writing including Codify (forthcoming, Éditions du Cygne, 2017) heshe egregore (with Daniel Y. Harris, Éditions du Cygne, 2016), Turtle Grass (Muddy River Books, 2014), Emily Dickinson (Propaganda Press, 2010) and Self Portrait Drawn From Many (Ibbetson Street Press, 2007). Some of her poetry, experimental writing and visual arts have been published in Clarion, Counterexample Poetics, Divine Dirt, E·ratio, experiential-experimental-literature, Lynx, Lummox, Of\with, Pop Art, Right Hand Pointing, Presa, The Seventh Quarry Magazine, Spreadhead, Stride and Unblog. She has exhibited her visual art at the Tokyo Art Museum Japan, the Henri IV Gallery, the Ponce Art Gallery, Gallery at Bentley College and the M & M Gallery. She is the Managing Editor of X-Peri.
