Debrah Morkun
Summer 2025 | Poetry
instead of creating more suitable nouns to give thingness ancestry, I carve phonemes out of canyon rock, hoping for a more logical way to say “animal”
the cave is a roundabout distraction & the man who escapes is a metaphor for the practical aesthetics of cloudier, rainier countries
- the birth of the witness -
rewriting the tale of Helen requires me to grow a cock so I can feel the plunder inside her
inconvenient to be a human being breaking the codes of the ruling class
inconvenient metaphors like human hell
Debrah Morkun believes in near-death experiences and prays to the old gods. She is the author of Projection Machine (BlazeVOX, 2010), The Ida Pingala (BlazeVOX, 2011), as well as several chapbooks. She lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a depth psychotherapist and often teaches at universities. Visit Debrah at www.debrahmorkun.net.