Poem of the Week | February 09, 2015
Melissa Tuckey: "These Little Bombs"
This week we offer a new poem by Melissa Tuckey. Tuckey is author of Tenuous Chapel, which won the ABZ First Book Prize, selected by Charles Simic (2013). Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Phoebe, Poetry International, Poet Lore, and other journals. Tuckey has received support from a Fine Arts Work Center Winter Fellowship and grants from Ohio Arts Council and DC Commission on Arts and Humanities. She’s a co-founder of Split This Rock, a national poetry organization dedicated to socially engaged poetry. She lives and works in Ithaca, New York.
Author’s note:
This poem was inspired by a photo of an event that looms large in my mind. Once I started writing, the titans showed up. I was thinking about the mythic qualities of family, how adults from a child’s point-of-view are clumsy and towering gods.
These Little Bombs
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