Content Warning: death
Katherine Ann – Where the Hands Outlast
the most memorable thing
about me is a fake.
as in made up, as in
i only built this to prove i could.
the irony is astounding,
a memento by any definition.
oh, this old thing? it's
lost by degrees,
but never lost enough.
too artificial for time to corrode.
taxidermy
or preserved in formaldehyde
the parts embalmed
after the autopsy.
no more real than the other
things in the mausoleum.
wait.
i swear i meant museum,
and every other place that holds
the things that lived
and never lived again.
question.
what would you make if you could
build your own hands?
more than i did-
maybe more-
Katherine Ann is a 24 year old queer poet living in Olympia, WA. She has work in Stone of Madness Press, Celestite Poetry, and forthcoming in Londemere Lit. She is also in the early stages of a full length collection, "What We Do When The World Refuses to End."
Photograph: Sleepless by Ilias Tsagas
Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English and in Greek. His poems have appeared in journals like: Ambit, Acropolis, The Mechanics’ Institute Review, Beir Bua, SAND, Tint, Poetry Lab Shanghai, Plumwood Mountain and elsewhere. He has also published poems in anthologies, such as: Deviance by Toothgrinder Press and Disease by Carnaval Press.