Terri Witek
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Books

  • DOWN WATER STREET
  • #12: copies: I loved you in the hard old way by
  • Newsers
  • SOMETHING’S MISSING IN THIS MUSEUM
  • The Rattle Egg by Terri Witek
  • WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry
  • Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry
  • Poesia Visual 5
  • The Rape Kit
  • Body Switch
  • First Shot At Fort Sumter / Possum
  • Exit Island
  • The Shipwreck Dress
  • Carnal World
  • Fools & Crows
  • Robert Lowell & Life Studies

Recent Work

  • Reading Barthes + the Hurricanes
  • Teaching with Cyriaco Lopes at the Hand Art Center ( June 2024 MFA residency at Stetson University)
  • Beyond the Illegible on Boundary Ave
  • Exit Island featured at show at The Liminal
  • ARCO Madrid
  • ARCO Madrid

The Day You Left // Square Rigged Sales

from Exit Island

in a sea without sound   each wave’s a shadow
    gill-breathing continues
    run amok, moonbeam
    no rest, no rest
     
in a sea without sound   wingless wave egrets
    this echo’s an accident
    also no sandbar
    who dives for the moon?
     
in a sea without sound   immigration by touch
    another deaf island
    compulsory drowning
    fish fish fish fish
     
in a sea without sound   end gravity too
    storms fade like migraines
    no pleasure in weeping
    grog all around
     
in a sea without sound   how will I find you?
    fasten one eyelid
    how will I find you?
    go to pieces, green wave

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