Carley Moore is a feminist dreamer, kale lover, boot wearer, reluctant multi-tasker, writer, ally, and mom. Her debut collection of essays, 16 Pills, is forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions in December 2017. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Brainchild, The Brooklyn Rail, The Establishment, Fence, GUTS, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Nervous Breakdown, and Public Books. She is a Clinical Professor of Writing and Contemporary Culture and Creative Production in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University and a Senior Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. You can find more of her work at her website.
FROM PORTAL POEM:
April is of uncertain origin
Auirel
Avril
Aprhodite
From the Latin, aperio, to bud
April is a deep portal
The storm as it quits
Thaw’s garbage
Heat tease
***
He said, I’m just a man, not a wolf.
I looked over my shoulder at the pile of mythologies
underneath the stairs
They were bones now
I’d licked them clean
and sucked out the marrow.