Suzanne Frischkorn

two poems

Upwind

and in the dress.

and in a knot.
This trail knits
nowhere.

in dishwater, a bait
switch

Bats mend a gap
in the tree's silhouette. Katydids root together

Chimney swifts flock
to evening

veil above the fence
and scatter, they sail
and steer into

without buzz. The fish
stores its song in the river.

In the boat

In an arch

My rings bathe


for a blue jewel.

with their hum.

leaving a dark

the fields. They bolt

 

Year Three of the Colossal Fraud

After Voice From a Stone, 2017

We are none of us quite who we were.
The past, a dream from which we wake
each morning. The dead don’t speak
however much we wish them to.
We are none of us quite who we were
the less you speak the more you hear.
A rusty hinge is never still.
The dead, remain silent.
We are none of us quite who we were.

 
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Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Lit Windowpane (2008), Girl on a Bridge, (2010) both from MSRP, and five chapbooks, most recently American Flamingo (2008). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Copper Nickel, Ecotone, Indiana Review, North American Review, Verse Daily, and Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy (Trinity University Press, 2020). Her honors include the Aldrich Poetry Award for her chapbook, Spring Tide, selected by Mary Oliver, an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Writer’s Center, and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.