At Ingolstadt | Natalie Eilbert

[milkhoney]

To be one of the caught you must first have a body that can be took.
Slowly I ate all the houseflowers, what good are dumb bodies.
I drank my fair-trade coffee, twirled my hair, and died lumpy royalty.
Only birds are a thing with feathers. God was a nasturtium head I bit off.
So were the birds. I can animate lifeless clay any hour of any day.
I would

Comments

[iatrogenicmyth]

Parts of this are like having my skull split open and my thoughts rearranged into poetic format.

And the ending ... so good.

I've never heard of this poet before. I'll have to remember to check out more of her work.

[milkhoney]

"Only birds are a thing with feathers. God was a nasturtium head I bit off."

first time i've read her work too