We are Starved
By Joshua Kryah
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We are Starved - Joshua Kryah
WE ARE STARVED
The Mountain West Poetry Series
Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell, series editors
WE ARE STARVED
POEMS
Joshua Kryah
The Center for Literary Publishing
Colorado State University
Copyright © 2011 by Joshua Kryah.
All rights reserved.
For information about permission to reproduce
selections from this book, write to
Permissions, Center for Literary Publishing,
9105 Campus Delivery, Department of English,
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-9105.
Printed in the United States of America.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kryah, Joshua.
We are starved : poems / Joshua Kryah.
p. cm. -- (Mountain west poetry series)
ISBN 978-1-885635-17-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3611.R885W4 2011
811’.6--dc22
2011012180
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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Publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
for my family, all of us
Violante
In the pantry
Gnawing at a mutton bone,
How she gnawed it,
How she clawed it,
When she felt herself alone.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins
CONTENTS
The Poor Know They Are Poor
We Are Starved
It Survives, a Way of Harming, Your Mouth
Sallied Forth
The Least Child
We Will Be Fed Upon, We Will Be Fed
Languor, Succor, Ardor
The Body-Hole
Ghostmeat
Therefore That He May Raise, the Lord Throws Down
The Body in Its Final Commerce
Playlist of the Same
Love Like unto Whited Sepulchres
Chanticleer
Noli Me Tangere
This Plenty, This Never Enough
Cheapside
A Paradise
Miracle of the Drowned
Corpus Christi Carol
Many Are the Ruined Cathedrals of the Heart
That Man to Man Is an Arrant Wolfe
From the Gospel of the Foundering
Thinking One Place Could Not Two Bodies Bear
The Day Without Before This Without
Darkling
An Attraction to Distance and Disappearance
Poor Dogsbody, Poor Dogsbody’s Body
I Had Not Brought You into the World for Love for Naught
Things Fast Toward Their Absent Forms
Homecoming
Centaur
Nobody Is Ever Missing
And Naught I Have and All the World I Seize Upon
We