Kristin Lueke is a Chicana poet living in northern New Mexico. She is the author of the chapbook (in)different math (Dancing Girl Press). Her works appeared in Sixth Finch, Wildness, HAD, Maudlin House, Frozen Sea, and elsewhere. She writes at theanimaleats.com.
Content by Kristin Lueke
Poetry,
[tanja, i’m afraid i’m done writing now]
tanja, i’m afraid i’m done writing now. i’ve tried so willingly to live. put good stones in my pockets. learned to name nuthatch, flicker, feathergrass, two types of daisy, thistle too. i know what grows to hurt you. that weeping doesn’t get the goods. destruction does. i was little when i learned, having rattled my […]
Poetry,
growing season
they called us mothers too & for this we laid low
with our eyes to the ground, opened our mouths
into dirt & prayed for the chance to be useful.