Monday, April 22, 2019

National Poetry Month : Zane Koss


dance


you learn quickly

how two bodies

move together chest

to chest as one to

follow without push

ing the other over to

anticipate not react

on the sway toward

to maintain  that



hung by one hand

whole body of muscles

burning as the snow

machine cobras toward

the crest of the ridge

swaying side to side

throttle pinned fluttered

when i say bail you

fucking bail bud



Zane Koss is a non-resident alien currently living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. He was raised on the traditional lands of the Ktunaxa (Kootenay) and Secwépemc (Shuswap) people. His critical and creative work can be found in the Chicago Review, CV2, Poetry is Dead, and elsewhere. He has two chapbooks of poetry, job site (Blasted Tree, 2018) and Warehouse Zone (Publication Studio Guelph, 2015). Zane is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at New York University, where he studies Canadian, Mexican and U.S. poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. web: https://wp.nyu.edu/zanekoss/

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