Terri Muuss
This Morning
Cover Art: Lewis Baltz, "Mustang Bridge Exit, Interstate 80, from the Nevada portfolio," 1977, Gelatin silver print, SFMOMA
This Morning
the black plastic bag at the off
ramp was mistaken for a kitten. I swerved, trying not to kill but almost kill myself. I make creatures from shadows, build voices with almost breath. At horizon, my pallid knees kiss sand. Now-- the ocean holds fragments of shells, hands. A seagull whistles, kettle on a burner, its helium cry. |
Terri Muuss is a social worker, director, performer, speaker & author whose poetry has received three Pushcart nominations and one Best of the Net nomination. Her first book, Over Exposed, was released in 2013 and in 2016 Terri co-edited an anthology of NY women poets entitled Grabbing the Apple. Terri has performed her one-woman show, Anatomy of a Doll, around the US and Canada since 1998. Her second book, God’s Spine, is forthcoming. Visit her at www.terrimuuss.com .
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