What I’m Working on Now by Chloe Honum


 

The title is Survive This

The title is Whispered into My Hands

The title is Blue Hills, Blue Rain

The title is In the Winter to End All Winters

The title is Phoebe of New England

The title is Laughter in the Psychiatric Ward

The title is The Quiet of the Man Who Thinks We’re Actors in a Play

The title is I Remember the Showboat

The title is Don’t Write About the Moon

The title is Moon

The title is Hey, Doc

The title is Don’t Be Afraid

The title is O My Enemy

The title is Listen, Buddy

The title is White Bread Sandwiches

The title is Little Styrofoam Cup of Water

The title is Stories from the Ward Above

The title is My New Friends Who I Will Never See Again

The title is Tentative

The title is Unexpected Side Effect

The title is I Pissed on His Grave and That’s Not a Figure of Speech Either

The title is Soft Boots

The title is Violins at Dusk

The title is You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But If You Try Sometimes….

The title is Trailing Off

The title is Take a Rock

The title is Close Your Eyes

The title is Breathless

The title is Blue Hills, Blue Lightning

The title is Ten Years of Translating Thunder

The title is Intake Questions About Joy

The title is Joy

The title is Center Stage and Mumbling

The title is A Totally Erased Poem

The title is Whirling Gods

The title is The Coyote’s Ribs

The title is Straggly Morning Choir

The title is Moth Haloed

The title is Sobbing

The title is Hello, You’re Late

The title is Sudsy White Blossoms, Indigo Sky

The title is The Inevitability of Spring

The title is Intermission

The title is Ellipsis

The title is How to Get There

The title is Tumble, Leap

The title is Follow the Dog Running in Its Dream

 

 

Chloe Honum grew up in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first book, The Tulip-Flame (2014), was selected by Tracy K. Smith for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize, named a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, and won Foreword Reviews Poetry Book of the Year Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and a Texas Institute of Letters Award. She is also the author of a chapbook, Then Winter (Bull City Press, 2017). Chloe has been a guest poetry editor for the Pushcart Prize anthology, and her poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Poetry, Orion, and The Southern Review.