Terri Witek
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Books

  • WAAVe Global Anthology of Women’s Asemic Writing and Visual Poetry
  • The Rattle Egg by Terri Witek
  • 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

  • cyriaco lopes terri witek: THE IMAGINARY PEDIMENT
  • Snail Trail Edition III
  • “The Antibodies” leaflet by Dona Mayoora and Terri Witek
  • Reliquaries Indigo
  • Ordinary Violence
  • “Il Pleut 19” in 17 Small Events

“Tomorrow Night, Shake Me”

from “Tomorrow Night, Shake Me”

The world was at its end again.
The houses all wore hats of fire.
We couldn’t find each other.

Wolves pawed clouds,
crows tunneled. Last grabbed objects,
instantly regretted, dropped,

though one child still clutched a feather
and a few things stayed unreasonably in place—
gravestones, oranges, beds.

Most of us tongued seeds, loved strangers.
Why not? Soon it would be noon forever.
We couldn’t find each other.

The great toleration was finished.
The world rushed into feather, then wind.

Slate‘s Poetry Podcast: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2013/05/_tomorrow_night_shake_me_by_terri_witek.html

Terri Witek’s most recent book of poems is Exit Island. She holds the Sullivan Chair in creative writing at Stetson University.

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