Red Channel in the Rupture
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Amber Flora Thomas
Amber Flora Thomas is the author of two collections of poems: EYE OF WATER, selected by Harryette Mullen as the winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and THE RABBITS COULD SING, selected by Peggy Shumaker for the Alaska Literary Series in 2011. A recipient of the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, Richard Peterson Prize, and Ann Stanford Prize, her poetry has appeared in Callaloo, Orion Magazine, Alaska Quarterly Review, Saranac Review, and Crab Orchard Review, as well as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry and numerous other journals and anthologies. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and faculty member. She received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 1998. She was born and raised in northern California.
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Red Channel in the Rupture - Amber Flora Thomas
Damaged Photos
You get into puddles with the sky
and when this fails
pit your girl against an ocean.
Choices blur and make off with rooms
in the whiteness. Winged enough to manage
your red kimono’s thirty-seven cranes in various
trajectories while you make the coffee.
You as God with rattlesnakes
and His Admiral Death holding down the muscle,
headless and breath swollen.
You scattered in her facelessness
behind the screen door, not frowning, not joyous,
just working her hands in a dish towel,
folding them away.
You as ether, over-exposed bursting place,
dulling with these selves, spun by light
and dropped into shadow places,
forgotten as you put the photos down.
An Opening
This morning the raiment
of a dead bat stops me
on the sidewalk, outside an abandoned
house on Main Street, and I find
my attention slipped
into narrow chambers
where a tutelage of insects
escapes. I stop,
though for clear horrors,
teeth cracked and ears
crushed to fish-scale, sun-rich
flaking. A brace too brittle
for thimble or spoon.
Velvet tufts gather in
my gaze and pocket
the lightness just the same.
Where waters diminished
to sand in the wing’s scuffing,
have closed, red unwoven
and stilled in ruptured channels,
sends salt as crystal
dust across my palm.
Parent shadows
fly out from the attic.
Poor bat, struck by the earth.
The Age of Forgetting
This happens with the rapture too.
Leaving your Birkenstocks and
brown sweater waiting at the chair
with a cold cup of coffee. A gift
of peacock feathers nodding in
a jar by the window. Served up
by science as brain atrophy. Shrapnel
misting cranial stars. Arias in