Poetry

Catapult Alumni | Poetry
Shuffled Still Life

This poem was written by Katy Gero in a 12-Month Poetry Collection Generator taught by Angel Nafis

Nov 4, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
Let Me Show You

oh, how my little joys have saved me

Oct 13, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
When your friend tells you: “these kids

at night, when i’m outside and / the wind shakes the chimes,
it sounds like the bell

Sep 14, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
Ashes at Kande Beach, Malawi

Everything is an elegy these days, all chipped rings, / clipped wings.

Jun 29, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
Sugar

I took my time shrugging / into this divinity

Jun 2, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
[Political] Dialogue

There were two worlds then, the one we lived in and the one she invented, where my aunt remarried and nobody ever went to America

Jun 1, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
Origin Story

I became an invader myself / a pathogen with survival traits

May 24, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
A Man Called After Dark

the smoke of belt burn / and nectarines and me / — I will learn to love him

May 17, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
On Some Saturday, After All of This

there is little room for sourness, / little room for anything other than a vibrating joy

May 11, 2021
Catapult | Poetry
Universe With No Fictional Films

I was afraid of being kidnapped.

May 6, 2021