GENESIS

 
             Under a troop of fixed stars
             there are little playthings of the will –               
             a hideous universe,
             a paradox of dust and mutation.
             Light howls off the roots
             dug visibly into one another.
             Each rib hides a juncture,
             a shape so dense it’s stricken;
             breath punctuates static –
             the soft part that’s always hungry.
             Future cities gasp and stutter
             toward impersonal nature.
             We roamed the earth,
             we encountered gravity,
             always refracting and distorting;
             we fell and bled upon the                                        
             black and purple skies.



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​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 and Intersection For The Arts, she teaches in the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs at California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University, and curates the Bay Area Poetry Marathon reading 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