Gin & Bleach

"My Reptile"

Little frilléd lizard

with your big mouth
and your clutch of egg.
Pure urge iguana
--I wanna wanna
wanna--heavy pet
in a moist habitat.
Your dewlap licks
down my spine;
your creep yearns,
yearns your crawl,
like a small machine
that you rev and
rev and rev until
the engine floods.

Gin and bleach: two clear liquids aiming for purity, bordering the toxic. Catherine Wing's poems are soaked in her cocktail, mixing doubt, loneliness, rough elbows, and razor focus. It riddles, aiming askew for a straight answer: how do we make our way through this world?

Author: Catherine Wing
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 08/14/2012
Series: Linda Bruckheimer Kentucky Literature
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781936747306