Poetry
Preposition in 6/4
Scheherazade, night so longwith the story I tell myselfto help winter pass, could be five ormidnight save for the moonlow over the Navy Yardsinging its
Emily Bergmann
January 3, 2019
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Wisteria, Brooklyn
“a labyrinth is not a maze, in which confusion is the aim.”¹ the path was always inevitable, never quite chosen. the unavoidable moon reveals blood
Emily Bergmann
June 29, 2018
Object Permanence
in spring we come across a peeling house and fill it with pots and pans. sometimes I make noise with a wooden spoon. you fix
Emily Bergmann
February 10, 2017
Poetry
How It Is Broken
my hands still smelling of garlic, I leave early, walking uncertain on my own two feet I imagine birds picking at the suet somewhere
Emily Bergmann
January 10, 2017
Poetry
Ripening
(after 8-bitfiction) you sink your sensible feet in the dirt while we talk about the heat presuming the boundaries of the court are drawn there
Emily Bergmann
October 17, 2016
Poetry
Plum Island
after Andrew Wyeth‘s Squall the piping plovers hopped along the time I went birding, cold and wet dispositions fret, slickered yellow hiding behind dunes pock-marked by
Emily Bergmann
June 17, 2016
Poetry
The Glass Dog
after Giorgio de Chirico’s I Shall Be There – The Glass Dog I shall be there baring the paunch of my stomach bearing my heart
Emily Bergmann
June 17, 2016
Troika
aching feet are forgotten once I sit on a red banquette. we’ve gone to Russia by way of the MTA. my mother would tell me
Emily Bergmann
March 6, 2016
Leap Day
balmy air sneaks its way through the gaps in the cable-knit, in this finicky colony housing confused birds and the carnage of melting snow. people
Emily Bergmann
March 6, 2016
Poetry
Pantoums for 3 a.m.
(for Siv) Fall Keeping shadows at arm’s length while the streetlights still flicker is the only way I know that I understand the dark. While
Emily Bergmann
December 2, 2015