Carol Dorf: Cinders in the Fire
Photo: Joanna C. Valente
Words will be cinders in the fire
Although you had expected something else
bright with hope and full of the understanding
of the expanding universe and what that says
about time, the loopholes in your meaning
take you on three turns past the tent city,
past the room where the rats have hidden
in the walls, past all the lovelies waiting
in line for the audition, or to vote
at the broken machines. What works?
Carol Dorf has three chapbooks in print, "Given," (Origami Poems,) "Some Years Ask," (Moria Press) and "Theory Headed Dragon," (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry also appears in "Unlikely Stories," "Shofar," "About Place," "Great Weather For Media," "Slipstream," "The Mom Egg," "Sin Fronteras," "Heresies," "Feminist Studies," "Scientific American," and "Maintenant." She is poetry editor of Talking Writing. She is interested in the intersections between poetry, disability, and science.
