“I don’t want to reminisce, I want to burn” by Coco Wilder
September 25, 2016 11:54 pm
Coco Wilder is a queer maker from the U.S. South. Her writing has appeared in Public Pool, Oxford American, The Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she works at the Academy of American Poets and is a MFA candidate at Columbia University.
Previously published on Public Pool
I DON’T WANT TO REMINISCE I WANT TO BURN
the road birds shout
away, away! enough.
gosh.
I whisper to myself gosh,
body terrific, stay alive
you luck-stoned
fool.
any way you unwrap it
when I become a better woman
it will be easy
to sing over the fire,
even the horses are on my team
even the horses are on my team
even the horses are on my team.
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