OTHERWORLDLY by KARYNE DE CONTRERAS

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Of course I'm delighted to showcase another Poems-For-All booklet from the generous gift of curator Richard Hansen!  This is otherwordly, a poem-booklet by Karyne De Contreras.  Here's its book cover (I do apologize for the poor quality of the images in this and many posts -- all a function of my first-generation Iphone camera ... but Moi thinks y'all get the drift anyway coz you're all smart peeps, right!?)

It's a slim booklet since the poem is short, requiring only one page:

Here's the poem's text in case you can't read the image:

otherworldly

bruise

to bruise

we angle

toward the sun

for healing

eyes closed

book ends

breathing

And the back cover reiterates Poems-For-All's mission:

scattered around town -- on buses,

trains, cabs, in restrooms, bars, left

along with the tip; stuffed into a

 stranger's back pocket. Whatever. Wherever.

So where shall we "shelve" Contreras' 1 5/8" x 2" mini-book?  Well, its ending lines -- "book ends / breathing" -- suggests that Moi indeed shelf it on one of the two bookend chairs!

These are cast-iron bookends, which means they can bear the pain within the poem ...