by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Letters To Felice Letters To Felice (Kafka’s letters from Riva del Garda 1913) He arrives by train from Venice sodden with dark worries, weakened by insomnia, inside him a naked bulb flickering and hissing straining to light a dim corridor....
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Indigo Indigo The Blue People A sand storm brings you intoKano through scrubland dust,half built empty houses.Tall on camels you ride indown one of the fivetrade routes that stretchlike fingers through Africa. Part noble, part slave,with...
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Divers Divers (La Quebrada, Acapulco) Shall we become divers? Me the brown pelican torpedoing off jagged cliff cushioned by air sacs beneath my skin then rising up a harbour in my bill, surviving the bellow of the water. Shall we become...
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Corrida De Toros Corrida De Toros 5pm in the arena the bugle sounds colours jostle under the thickening yolk of the sun you paw up the dust stretch muzzle trembling the toreros circle assessing your weight height the sinuous nature...
by Kate_Ruse_Admin | Jan 19, 2022
Kate Ruse Poetry Archive · Circus Mother Circus Mother I come from the circus people from the smell of sawdust wax dry ice I come from the ringmaster’s mistress wild in her fishnet tights on a night too windy to set sail I come from the trailer full of straw tent...
