Kimberly E Ruth @ January 18, 2010 # One Comment
Due Date
by kimberly e. ruth
Squat on the peak, they held hands, with resistance.
I want to kiss you, she said. You know I can’t, baby, a little slack and we’re with the pigs. She looked down. It’s been three months. I want to fuck, she said. It doesn’t seem to bother them he said, pointing to [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ November 25, 2009 # One Comment
the road to peace
by kimberly e. ruth
There is someplace else
I should be
not here in this seat
not in this town
I look out the rear
view mirror
at a woman with ragged hair
who is walking somewhere,
I assume.
I pass an empty play ground and
turn around.
The sun says some time has passed.
The woman with ragged hair
is still pacing
and the radio says
outbound [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ October 15, 2009 # One Comment
Aimless Love, Summer Love
by kimberly e. ruth
*a response to Billy Collin’s Aimless Love
The best kind of love, he wrote
was that without recompose, without
gifts, or unkind words,
without silence
on the telephone:
a mouse carcass, a wren,
a chestnut.
I continue reading under a confused fan,
a dim light. He breathes, unaware.
Things like that, he argues
they can’t slam doors or pack their [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ September 15, 2009 # One Comment
On The Electrodynamics of Dying Bodies
by kimberly e. ruth
*Title appropriated from Albert Einstein’s essay “On The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” which introduced his theory of special relativity.
CONSEQUENCE ONE
It is titled War Execution. His face is contorted with one eye shut and the other only half- so, like a broken window stuck ajar, yet he stands [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ September 1, 2009 # 4 Comments
I am you with teeth (a revelation inspired by Jerry Springer)
by kimberly e. ruth
You sit there smirking
marinating yourself in declarations of truth
Beings of proof that hate breeds hate
bang their heads against walls and ask
why.
How
could
you
sleep with my husband,
Mom?
A crowd growls
They mock her
ask her
and chant
show us your teeth
show us your teeth
We are divided like [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ August 10, 2009 # 4 Comments
Flash Light
by kimberly e. ruth
Like inside a pig’s stomach, it was dark:
a scene illuminated only
by what looked like a dilapidated saint
broken and buzzing an awkward
buzz.
I stepped closer
to get a better look and maybe feel or
touch or be touched by this flashlight
of a thing
but she flinched,
quivering like an unmade
bed.
I stepped back
showing her my armless hands
knowing here, [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ July 1, 2009 # 3 Comments
Big Dreams
by kimberly e ruth
On my way home from work I heard a man say it doesn’t matter, sleep is the same wherever you do it, and I thought, yeah, for the moment. I remember the sun was strong and my eyes hurt like the time in elementary school when we were given cards to [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ June 22, 2009 # One Comment
love is
by kimberly e. ruth
I want to smoke tea leaves with you, baby
and play ping pong off the hood of our neighbor’s
Mercedes Benz. I’ll let you serve me
Love me.
I was reminded of you this morning when staring
out the window; It was Mary Joe siphoning gas from her car
She looked happy.
I thought if you would spit [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ May 23, 2009 # No Comment Yet
At the County Fair (in New Jersey)
by kimberly e. ruth
He blew up my balloon and I held my breath. As
it got bigger, so did my eyes, as though air were
being blown into me instead of the balloon. I was
filled with air. It was filling with air. The air was
cool and Mom tied the string from [...]
Kimberly E Ruth @ May 9, 2009 # One Comment
on Sunbathing
by kimberly e ruth
oil
sunglasses
removable top
and any surface:
grass, sand, pavement
There was once a 3 car pile up
southbound on the New York State
Thruway, cars backed up for exits.
Motionless bodies, face up,
on the hoods of cars,
will turn over in 5 minutes,
to even their tans.