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Books

  • 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

  • Exit Island featured at show at The Liminal
  • ARCO Madrid
  • ARCO Madrid
  • Collaboration with Amaranth Borsuk
  • Visual / Invisible / Womxn: An Introduction
  • Terri Witek : My First Real Poet : WH Auden

“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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