Cat's Tongue

Cat's Tongue Synopsis

Cat’s Tongue is the latest publication from California-based writer Kathleen Winter. These poems vary widely in style and subject matter, but they share precisely crafted language and this writer’s unique perspective. from “Each Day a New Round of Sadness” Islands of the Hawaiian archipelago are connected to each other under the surface of the sea. Under the surface of the sea something roils like a volcano preparing to explode. To explode sometimes suggests a solution to the situation of constraint, ubiquitous as fear these days, when stasis is a prize. A prize, that is, compared to illness. Can’t wellness sink its teeth deep into me to feel acutely as a wound? A wound is what the dream delivers with an image of my mother wreathed in Hawaiian flowers— tuberose releasing its cloying daylong ennui.

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