UNTITLED
by CAConrad
refrigerators
are where
we keep our bodies
before they become
our bodies
spinning inside
routines this
living
provides
we sense
language
travel
on our
constant
breath
open a
friend’s
refrigerator to yell
Hello Future Friend
human beings are a
symptom of the
Big Bang
gun
stores
fill with
shoppers
bombs mark
the sky with
our pledge
About the author
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021), which won the 2022 PEN Josephine Miles Award. They received a 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book of Frank is now available in 9 languages; their play The Obituary Show was made into a film in 2022 by Augusto Cascales, and they exhibit poems as art objects with recent shows in Santander, Spain, and Lisbon, Portugal. Visit them online at https://linktr.ee/CAConrad88