I REMEMBER THE RED

Abstract

These poems act as speculative meditations on violence, grief, and the difficulty of memory when recalling a traumatic event. Danger, in these poems, puts everything on a stage where feelings of loss are compounded with the difficulty of memory and where consciousness has the ability to know intuitively. The poems work as revisions or retelling of these narratives. They often occur within a room filled with objects and seem intent on exploring the relationship of physical space and the emotion of a speaker. These poems move associatively, accruing in meaning through dream logic.