Thursday, February 25, 2021

New Poetry by Amy Bobeda










It’s called apheresis
it’s the thing–– 

I have a friend you should see in Santa Rosa
the doctor in the purple shirt says 
a blood cleanings without
crystals
on the windowsill
a $4000 dollar treatment
an appointment in a week
and if it works––

the language of medicine
once Greek
transposed Latin and English
to become a militarized
word
inventing scenarios
graphically understood
the 17th century
introduced: 
battle, enemy
and attack
declaring war against
nature
of the body
of the land
man’s attempt to 
disband 
fathers of Olympus
who
wared their own


- © Amy Bobeda 2021


Amy holds and MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she founded Wisdom Body Collective, an artist collective rooted in the sacred feminine. Her work can be read in Humble Pie, Vol 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. @AmyBobeda on twitter. 

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