Session Three Anthology

MENTOR: Eloisa Amezcua

After Arturo Herrera’s “Felt #8”

to be felt is both to drip and to fold;
there are many ways to reach the floor

feel, felt
felt, felted

to be felt is to savvy
the word “alive”

red, feeling
red, felt
red felt
red felt, felted

to be red felt is to find
in blood a startling intimacy, an other-
wise impossible familiarity—

to clot is to pill, vice versa

to be red felt is to feel the flush
of one’s cheeks, to be
the object of “humiliate”

red, reddening
read

to be read is to be cloaked,
perpetually stolen
away, another slight invisibility

to be red is to be the hunted
or the ridden

red
ride, riding, rode, ridden

Lauren R. Korn is a poet and graphic designer currently living on the traditional unceded territory of the Walastoqiyik (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq Peoples. She is the Director for Content for The Adroit Journal and the current Managing Editor for Qwerty. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming.