National Poetry Month: “People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef” by Heather Christle
April 17, 2018In his interview with Adrian Matjeka, Kaveh Akbar says Christle’s poem is “full of defamiliarist wonder.” “People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef,” is by Heather Christle, from Heliopause,…
In his interview with Adrian Matjeka, Kaveh Akbar says Christle’s poem is “full of defamiliarist wonder.” “People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef,” is by Heather Christle, from Heliopause, courtesy of the author and Wesleyan University Press.
People Are a Living Structure Like a Coral Reef
People love to clean their ears and I love people
very much They are everywhere! Every single
thing I love I love for windows only and if
one window reflects another then friends
for me it’s all over And in the windows are trees
and in the windows are people What are they even doing
with their hunger and in their new shirts They are
taking care of themselves and they are taking each other out
for lunch Oh even the rain has to love them People
are just too attractive! and the rain places itself
on the window in order to be closer to the people
the ones who are eating The ones who are
busting out vigor Oh people You have to love
people They are so much like ourselves
Indiana Humanities is celebrating National Poetry Month in collaboration with Indiana Poet Laureate Adrian Matejka. We’ll be sharing interviews with Indiana poets, discussion on poetic form and other poetry. See the full span on National Poetry Month posts here.
