E. Kristin Anderson

Modified Mornings

Darling I got out
of that rusting miracle
beating too fast;
glancing back I know
that sinister slip
was a surge
of the skull
along toward
the horizon.
I dropped unease,
as if swallowed
like a schoolgirl
bent for rain, pretty,
checking the sky for rain.
 
This is an erasure poem. Source: King, Stephen. Christine. New York: Signet, 1983. 34-35. Print.

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The whole place is falling in

Always poison ivy
the obscene       tucked
               into her purse
                                     kneeling
always running      always   this
                 critical mass
her eyes said, slowly:      This must be
                            the shadow.
It seems incredible, bleeding, surviving
       sorta cute              that her life
            had become hysterics,
the act of working        blind,     a handprint
      shining              (damn it)    on the instant
                                      of flashgun falling.
 
This is a found poem. Source material: King, Stephen. Carrie. New York: Anchor, 2011. 10-14. Print.




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E. Kristin Anderson is a poet and author living in Austin, TX. She is the co-editor of Dear Teen Me, an anthology based on the popular website and her next anthology, Hysteria: Writing the female body, is forthcoming from Sable Books. She is currently curating Come as You Are, an anthology of writing on 90s pop culture for ELJ Publications. Kristin is the author of eight chapbooks of poetry including A Guide for the Practical Abductee (Red Bird Chapbooks), Pray, Pray, Pray: Poems I wrote to Prince in the middle of the night (Porkbelly Press), Fire in the Sky (Grey Book Press), She Witnesses (dancing girl press), and We’re Doing Witchcraft (Hermeneutic Chaos Press). Kristin recently took a position as Special Projects Manager for ELJ and was a poetry editor at Found Poetry Review. Once upon a time she worked at The New Yorker. Find her online at EKristinAnderson.com and on Twitter at @ek_anderson.