Attached; poetry of suffix | Katrin Talbot

Australian-born Katrin Talbot’s collection Wrong Number is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. She has five other chapbooks, besides Attached—Poetry of Suffix, including The Blind Lifeguard from Finishing Line Press, The Little Red Poem and noun’d, verb, both from dancing girl press, Freeze-Dried Love from Finishing Line Press, and St. Cecilia’s Daze, published by Parallel Press. She also has two Pushcart Prize nominations and quite a few chickens.   Youngerthan a Strad,older than a yesterday,the viola that is mine—as if anyonecan own a sound,carrying its youth,its song,within a soundpostMade by a man who was soon to go mad,after Brahms, before PiazollaIf I hand it to you,don’t worry about anything butthe flame of her back, the ribs of her waist, her scroll’s deep secrets;the arrival schedule ofmadness is more fluidthan you think