by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Oct 1, 2020 | Galileo Press
Poem of Mercy No one poem is enough. Noone poem contains the mercyI seek, the forgiveness. There are nowords that can approachthe tufts of fine black hairon the backs of doctor’s handsas he dialed my home that nightfrom one of the side rooms,then choked, looking...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Sep 3, 2020 | Galileo Press
Conservation I write to you on the stationeryof the chairman of the board of a defunct company.Tell you how I’m tryingto assemble my life with the simple logicof electronic components. Everythingcomes apart in my hands, I can’tcomprehend schematics. What...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Aug 13, 2020 | Galileo Press
In 1982, Lynne Cawood Howard wrote the perfect coronavirus poem. The Miner’s Son My father died in his fortieth winterwhen the black scars that were his lungsgave in with one final breath.Though I have not reached thirty, I wake up coughing and hear the rattle...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Jul 24, 2020 | Galileo Press
Check out Alison Turner’s review of Julia’s latest book: https://www.barrelhousemag.com/onlinelit/2020/01/wendell-cometothex
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Jul 7, 2020 | Galileo Press
How can someone from half way across the world and growing up in a completely different culture assemble imagery in such a way that you understand completely what is being said? You have felt the same way and marvel at how they move you with their melancholy. But...
by Anniebelle Quattlebaum | Jun 2, 2020 | Galileo Press
Days of Summer Gone It’s too late to go back to that apartmentIn Bowling Green, Kentucky, where we slept togetherSo many nights. I wonder if whoever lives there nowAnd fucks in that bed ever wonders about us? If memory’s any good gauge, the placeMust be...
