Of Sense and Sausage: an Ars Poetica
Did mortadella take a fall
when it became b-o-l-o-g-n-a?
Imagine the artisanal scraps of a day, a week, a year
ground by the mortar and pestle of a human life
into a garlicky, fragrant paste of image and sensation
dappled with throaty cubes of syllabic fat
longing to sing: to melt into meaning,
to nourish.
Taste with the Mind
the bright pop of peppercorn rhyme
or the sound-repeating scent of myrtle words
weaving into a form with the flow of silk.
These translucent, sliced lines,
pistachioed with punctuation,
falling into great round stanzas
sandwiched between Death and Time:
That’s no baloney.
Kendra Kehde is an emerging poet. Initially trained as a literary scholar with degrees in English from Vassar College and Brown University, beginning in 2020 she began to focus intensively on writing poetry. Her work explores the intersection of consciousness, embodiment, and creative emergence through both traditional and experimental uses of form, cross-pollinating poetry with the discourses of science, history, philosophy, and music. Currently, she has been published by Trillium Awakening Expressions and the Deeptime Network.
Did mortadella take a fall
when it became b-o-l-o-g-n-a?
Imagine the artisanal scraps of a day, a week, a year
ground by the mortar and pestle of a human life
into a garlicky, fragrant paste of image and sensation
dappled with throaty cubes of syllabic fat
longing to sing: to melt into meaning,
to nourish.
Taste with the Mind
the bright pop of peppercorn rhyme
or the sound-repeating scent of myrtle words
weaving into a form with the flow of silk.
These translucent, sliced lines,
pistachioed with punctuation,
falling into great round stanzas
sandwiched between Death and Time:
That’s no baloney.
Kendra Kehde is an emerging poet. Initially trained as a literary scholar with degrees in English from Vassar College and Brown University, beginning in 2020 she began to focus intensively on writing poetry. Her work explores the intersection of consciousness, embodiment, and creative emergence through both traditional and experimental uses of form, cross-pollinating poetry with the discourses of science, history, philosophy, and music. Currently, she has been published by Trillium Awakening Expressions and the Deeptime Network.
