rooted. / Aimee Herman

  dancing girl press, 2014$7.00 Aimee Herman is a non-professional dumpster diver, searching for scraps of sounds and metaphors, half-eaten and clumsy. Aimee’s poems can be found on various park benches in NYC and its surrounding boroughs or hiding inside the fourth scar on right forearm and stained into books such as: Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) and the full-length collection of poetry, to go without blinking (BlazeVOX books). Aimee is also a proud faculty member of Poetry Teachers NYC. For more words, go to: aimeeherman.wordpress.com an engagement with apologies I’m sorry to arrive at a rumor with exposed fascia and crutches. I'm sorry I've grown an aversion to the scent of your voice. I'm sorry you only call me when it's a holiday. I’m sorry I ate the leftovers of oxygen and sewing needles. I'm sorry for the grey intruding on my red and the need to bleach bleach bleach. I’m sorry you don’t love me anymore. I'm sorry I sti