“In Jami Macarty’s The Whole Catastrophe, every asterisk indicates something precious. Macarty uses the poetic form to create space for what is otherwise omitted: the fresh air outside car windows, the stars blotted out by city infrastructures, a friend gone too soon. Chronicling a road trip to the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, Macarty reflects on fragility, greed and the disasters we must withstand, from toxic feedlots to carbon monoxide poisoning.
Jami Macarty | LATE AFTERNOON AUTUMN, A TREMBLED ALTERNATIVE
coming up over the hill
then down a chill
into slivered light, a shiver
walking across green, grassy wholeness—
Time Out of Time by Arleen Paré | Review by Jami Macarty
A Review of Time out of Time by Arlene Paré
Jami Macarty | IS OCCURRING
feet touching ground is occurring everywhere I walk
I kill something is occurring surrendering to melancholy
Jami Macarty | NOR’EASTER
NOR’EASTER The house on Atlantic Ave ………. teeters on the embankment’s ………. edge— ………. a feather could send it crashing. The black-blue sea there’s no stopping ………. kicks in the door, strangles shore. House’s floor: water’s feet. Walls: sand and froth. Salt: a tarnished coating. Wind: a burglar wrestling shutters ………. whistles a tune about […]
Jami Macarty | HELICOPTER
HELICOPTER To propel upward press through the clamped-down lid a two-way bed is all that’s needed. A mutable bed, a mutual bed. One moment replaces another. A tear table, a tea bench. Inexact, uneven rotors supply lift, pull vertically. To feel the All— the wind’s lid open in the dust. Author’s Bio JAMI […]
Jami Macarty | WHO THE STRUMMER
WHO THE STRUMMER I am two women who live in parallel universes trying to break and re-create all bonds. She is aware of me and I, her but our communication a febrile ogdoad a nadir of loneliness. This blood-webbing capable of rescue yet every hour wraiths nicker scattershot across irradiated sand. I’m tidal. She’s trickling, […]
Waking to WAKING TO SNOW by Robert MacLean | Review by Jami Macarty
Waking to WAKING TO SNOW by Robert MacLean Review by Jami Macarty In mid-December, 2020, Eleni Zisimatos, the poetry editor and factotum at Vallum, asked me if I would be interested in reviewing Robert MacLean’s Waking to Snow (Isobar Press, 2020). Based on my experience that writing a reader’s response to a book I’m not […]
Jami Macarty | LUSTROUS FUGITIVE
LUSTROUS FUGITIVE O my Goddess come and see ………..how I will the long now how memory’s return device guest-hosts my one ………..………………….featherweight life on a median island Goddess will you will the time of will I to end ………..………………….my infinite future empty of children end my disgrace of form ………..…………………expectant […]