Kate Lutzner

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

@GretaThunberg We are ruining our lives, the earth about

to shatter sadly, a failure, a clump of cells

telling us there is no more history

to hold. A generation will die sooner

than we will, a pale shadow of itself,

carcasses lining the streets where once

you and I stood...

[Saint Flashlight @SaintFlashlight]

A poem can provide perspective on a movie (like this one from @herekittykittyx aka Kate Lutzner)

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

It’s violet at night in my
room, independent and thick
as a thumb.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

I am the sound of small talk, the back
of a party or throat.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

We walked along and you said
I was a memorable failure, like an ivory
blossom that’s not quite ivory, little
bruises of color punched in.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

Each time I thought
of leaving, some hand of love
or almost-love pulled me in.#PoetweetNYC

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

#NPRpoetry I forgot that some of my affection would always rest within your ribcage, along with your heart, that kind conservancy of winter

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

#npr poetry I try not to use the word heart in my poems anymore and it got replaced by something more capable of letting me know

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

you listen to dramatic
reconciliation ceremonies concerning love
and war, the soft threshold that separates
them

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

You can hear the dog breathing, all the mistakes
you have made.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

I had a more industrious heart at the time.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

There were noisy worshippers upstairs,
the breach of their feet like blur.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

The dark is root and sorrow.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

the difference between a sparrow and a sparrow's heart

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

I wrote a poem half asleep to the grieving center which is in all of us, a specific breach in the lives we're trying to go about.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

Poetry Mayhem

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

The cage of my heart compresses
with you in it.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

how
harsh it sounds, to my ears, tiny
honors of offense.

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

the downside of safety

[Kate Lutzner @herekittykittyx]

I am quiet with regret, the kind of red
quiet that screams landscape, and terror,
and injury.