Issue 10 • Summer 2004 • Featured Writer • Poetry

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from: iduna

kari edwards

by the beds, by the feature intrigues, designed by ships and by planes, I am not sure of the others, I am not here by the bed, I am the bed as a    condition, I am in the bed stated by laws that shouts for the never stated, I shout a connection of the relative position, a question of points and partitions, pretenders and contenders. by planes I am the bed made or unmade. the bed stated on the never stated. I am not here and the disturbance, or not remembered remembering. the black and definitions. there were urges that were reenacted on rugs that proclaimed all the other disturbances on the here and the there of   it. the here and the there of them. the where and where of them. the too much on and off of them on the bed again, on the others, on the feature flaws, on intrinsic transgressions, on a multitude of inceptions, conceptions, and that grand holy oblique unperfected deception. there were the here and where reenacted on the feat re flaws, on intrinsic not here and proclaimed by the made or unmade. I am the there of it. I wanted my map, I wanted a shuck and jive mass obliteration spoof proof, border termination intersection. the here and here and shouting, the deeper digging and all the connection of inceptions, conceptions, and conventions. conventions that matter in tick tock logic laws and flaws by ship or not on the not here on the plane, in a bed made or unmade. the disturbances, the proverbial lecture pushes me into the made or unmade bed. I could not remember which sex was to remember remembering sex. the here and the there of it. the black and twisted of it on the bed with the strap in the section with the deeper digging and shouting of it, the here and here stated on the main feature of there and there of it. they were reenacted on intrinsic    transgressions, on rugs that grand holy oblique unperfected deception. I am in tick tock logic laws, lesson intrigues, designed by the others. I wanted a map, a condition, a connection of it.

kari edwards is author of iduna, a day in the life of p., a diary of lies - Belladonna #27, and post/(pink). Sie is also the poetry editor of the International Foundation for Gender Education Transgender Tapestry, an international publication on transgender issues. Hir work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including Denver Art Museum, New Orleans Contemporary Art Museum, University of California San Diego, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. edwards' work can also be found in The Best American Poetry 2004, Experimental Theology, Public Text 0.2, Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Aufgabe, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Call, Boog City, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Narrativity, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Pom2, Shearsman, and The International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies.

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