Do Screens Remember Stories?
 


the black ships grew
tall blue sails (it's a story,
it's a skin game),

​midnight shining
through teeth, a blue
photo in the real world –

beneath the violence
of bodies, the perfect
celluloid ceiling: smell

of mercy from the back
row, collapse of distance
between meat and light –

so you imagine
an anchoring
in a precarious

universe, a pretty
limbo, arms of night
ships trading places in

the rain, then something flies
at you (noise of tunnels,
sargasso waste and dead

weather): your tethered
dark, brackish panic,
rags chopping

the air
 
                                                            

​Donna de la Perrière is the author of True Crime (Talisman House, 2009) and Saint Erasure (Talisman House, 2010), a 2011 NCIBA Book of the Year Award finalist.
The recipient of a 2009 Fund for Poetry Award and a 2016 Lecturer Creative Work Grant from San Francisco State University's Creative Writing Department andIntersection For The Arts, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Artsand San Francisco State University, and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathonreading series in San Francisco.

​Her work has appeared in Kindergarde: Avant Garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs for Children (Black Radish Books, 2013), No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press, 2009) and Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), as well as journals such as American Letters and Commentary,Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Five Fingers Review, Interim, New American Writing, and Volt.  Her chapbook, “First Love,” is part of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange collection at San Francisco State University.
She is currently working on a third full-length manuscript, Second Person. 

Read more at donnadelaperriere.net