Cat's Tongue

Cat’s Tongue is the latest publication from California-based writer Kathleen Winter. These poems vary widely in style and subject matter, but they share precisely crafted language and this writer’s unique perspective.from “Each Day a New Round of Sadness” Islands of the Hawaiian archipelago are connectedto each other under the surface of the sea.Under the surface of the sea something roilslike a volcano preparing to explode.To explode sometimes suggests a solutionto the situation of constraint, ubiquitousas fear these days, when stasis is a prize.A prize, that is, compared to illness.Can’t wellness sink its teeth deep into meto feel acutely as a wound?A wound is what the dream deliverswith an image of my motherwreathed in Hawaiian flowers—tuberose releasing its cloyingdaylong ennui.