Arlene Ang’s latest poetry collection, Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu was published by Cinnamon Press in 2010. She designs books for Texture Press and also serves as staff editor for The Pedestal Magazine. More of her work may be viewed at www.leafscape.org.
Arlene Ang
Arlene Ang: This Morning Without the Brother
We arrive in drizzle and sit among cerements of drowning. The bus grows emptier the more faces stare out the windows: breath is perceptible only to glass. Like ghosts, clouds descend from sky and undress their way through skyscrapers. Fog moves in—the lungs, the curling hair, the blankets around the sleepers under the bridge. Outside […]
Arlene Ang: Further Adventures Into Private Parts
400 pieces of eight for a joint if lost in good company like an evening marrooned with bananas— and all along i thought i was plagiarizing my scent in port royal in the captain’s cabin in his chest of maps—he allowed me to feel around wooden legs allowed me to sleep on that blue stain […]
Arlene Ang: Analysis of Shipwreck
the dead spitting up the future the dead recurrent in seated positions heads tilt toward the music sheets on the chandelier attached to the cello a hand a leg & blue-bottle light from windows hypothesis: the distribution of the dead depends primarily on their correct simulation of seaweed & lovemaking the body is held together […]
Arlene Ang: Process of Forgetting
When Mrs Kovacs upstairs left the door open, we brushed it aside as carelessness. After three days, we began to think of burglary, or worse, maggots hicupping their way into the body. Mrs Kovacs was absent from her home at the hour of death. When they found her in the river, they had to find […]