Green Linden Press

from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

swallowed
each other
until we
heard
each
other
think
queer pirates
I have loved
loosened my
wilderness
no
more
miscounting
butterflies in
our utopia
let's make
poems
that
can
rob
a bank

from Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

losing
something
too important
to lose
is hard
the first
time so
next time
ransom April's song
before it finds itself
I took my time finding
the right man to
build this wall
against the
phantasm
we're rowing to
the middle of
the Bermuda
Triangle we
send our
love

(These poems are from the anthology Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, forthcoming from Green Linden Press.)

CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their new book is AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021). The Book of Frank (Wave Books) has been translated into nine languages. They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. Their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. You can find them online at linktr.ee/CAConrad88

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