The Dead: Poetry
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The Dead features thirty-seven original poems by Tara Lynn Hawk in her premiere chapbook.
Tara's second book,Rhetorical Wanderlust, is publishing late January 2018!
Born in northern California, Tara has traveled and lived in Europe, the United Kingdom and the western United States.
Her writing focuses on social and relationship issues such as isolation, loneliness, marginalization, fear, terror, love and death. She writes in a contemporary, free verse manner. Her poems have been featured on many poetry sites including Rasputin, Uut, Midnight Lane Gallery, Spelk, Idle Ink, OCCULUM, Social Justice Poetry, Spilling Cocoa, The Poet Community, Poems and Poetry and others.
Her varied influences include the Beat Poets including Lew Welch and Ginsberg, as well as Montaigne, Rumi, Baudelaire, Sexton, William Carlos Williams, Lucretius, Shakespeare, Elliot, Wolfe, Yeats, Heaney, Patti Smith, Blake, Panayotopoulos, and Akhmatova.
In addition to poetry, she writes flash fiction, humor, critique and film treatments.
The Dead is her first chapbook volume of poetry.
Tara Lynn Hawk
Born in northern California, Tara has traveled and lived in Europe, the United Kingdom and the western United States. Her writing focuses on social and relationship issues such as isolation, loneliness, marginalization, fear, terror, love and death. She writes in a contemporary, free verse manner. Her poems have been featured in print and on numerous poetry sites including OCCULUM, Midnight Lane Gallery, Uut, Idle Ink, The Cabinet of Heed, Spelk, Anti-Heroin Chic, Social Justice Poetry, Spilling Cocoa on Martin Amis, Wanton Fuckery, The Poet Community, Poems and Poetry and more. Her varied influences include the Beat Poets including Lew Welch and Ginsberg, as well as Montaigne, Rumi, Baudelaire, Sexton, William Carlos Williams, Lucretius, Shakespeare, Elliot, Wolfe, Yeats, Heaney, Patti Smith, Blake, Panayotopoulos, and Akhmatova. In addition to poetry, she writes flash fiction, humor, critique and film treatments.
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The Dead - Tara Lynn Hawk
We bury our dead
upon the top of the hill
Surround the space with surplus maples and elms
and a weak fence of old, mismatched wood
And then forget about them
Till we come across some old photograph
or postcard received long ago
And then we remember:
Oh yes . . . they are up there
The fire of loss reignited
They rest amongst stone markers
Inundated with scattered dirt
and dead leaves
Grasses and dandelions grown tangled and wild
We can no longer discern
Who is who
and where
We bury our dead
Upon the top of the hill
And then forget
Your History
Silently ushered into the stark, blazing bright room
All dull stainless steel and white ceramic
Your life drained, almost translucent skin
Now purple bruised
Wet hair and lifeless mouth
Charcoal lips
So cold to my attempt at a touch
I desire to lift you up
Slap you out of your newfound icey comportment
My eyes emit an angry wet flood of fire
And yours, yours I no longer see
My aching remembrance of your pounding heart
Close to mine
We sat overlooking the lake valley
Our backs leaned against the giant granite
Now your history has ended
Mine stumbles aimlessly onward
Like some lost and blind orphan
But know
I will tell your story
I will look out over the waiting alpine landscape
On the boulder
I will write your name
With my blood
Ashes
Being a Requiem for the Victims of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Bombing
The ashes remember
What body they once