Jordan Trethewey
Jordan Trethewey
enthusiasm
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“Nature and / Nurture pre-set my temperature to freezing— / crystallized the fun completely.”
disregard it
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“What if / there is a part of you / burdened to carry / an accumulation of your / discarded past?”
broader love
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“…let there be willingness to declare / rivalries dead. Just long enough to let our / guards down. Admit to broader love.”
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[when a cactus comes undone,]
Golden Shovel Poem by Jordan Trethewey (from the serialized chapbook There Is More)
“When a cactus comes undone, / rot hides below ground for / who knows how long? Until someone like me / finds it horizontal, rootless.”
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.”
the great curmudgeon (an exorcism)
by Jordan Trethewey
“The Great Curmudgeon / stands in front of a wall / with a face painted on it. / He proceeds to talk it off.”
judy for justice: “zoom, judy, zoom”
by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney)
“Judy are not cynics. / Despite their funeral attire, / and their activist worry…”
judy 4 justice: “enjoying the sights and smells”
by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney)
“Judy arrives. Assesses a mill across a river / Community gathers, tells her, “We tried. Said, / Give a hoot, don't pollute! Don't lay forests bare!”
judy for justice: “what to wear? what to wear?”
by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney)
“Judy are not fashionistas. / Frivolity is not fundamental / to their identity.”
judy 4 justice: “walking the birds”
by Jordan Trethewey (art by Laura Kenney)
“Despite no encouragement, Judy / naturally attract an odd following. / As if Snow White’s aura warped / upon entering Earth’s atmosphere.”