Jordan Trethewey
Jordan Trethewey
sushi-and-sake drunk
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“When you are sushi-and-sake drunk, / be not tempted by the live octopus / in salt water tank.”
what we know
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“What we know / about ourselves / will cause problems again. / New ones, as / spectacular as those once / entangling us.”
bone weary
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“What does / it take to rekindle the language / of youth—run, kick, jump, lift?”
please act normal—whatever that means
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“I want you to just / act your age, not your trauma size…”
so desire called love into being
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“Had overwhelming desire / to one day be called, / Daddy!…”
real estate
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“…land, / not touched by man once, / became commodity to be stolen…”
an idyllic sickness
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“If the heart / is the compass we’re lead by, /the mind uses repetition as a / way to adjust in a new pastoral / landscape.”
like feathers, weightless
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“To worry about reaching 80 must / seem indulgent to child ghosts, come / bearing witness to / what might have happened to them / if endings were written differently.”