Truncated thoughts make way for daylight
create space for afternoon meanderings
are we doomed to watch and wait days
people walk and drive past
as we sit cloistered in half-language
imagining walls spill secrets to anxious limbs
spring breezes tuck in tight to eaves
remind us of the speaking world.
-Megan Kaminski
Some people want a pole to magnetize. A rock to lichen. A frame to rust.
Mary Millsap
Poems by James Copeland, Lucy Ives, Megan Kaminski, Mary Millsap, Zachary Schomburg & Mathias Svalina, and Kevin Varrone.
This issue of 6×6 was designed by Will Hubbard. Cover offset printed by Polyprint & Design in NYC and letterpress printed at UDP.
6×6 magazine included 6 poets in each issue.
6×6 was supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
ISSN: 1553-9459
Megan Kaminski, in 6×6 #17, presents untitled poems from a longer sequence, “Favored Daughter.” Dispensing with punctuation, she creates blocks of text, whose meanings hover and migrate… As with all her poems in this selection, the first word only is capitalized, making them function like stanzas. They are breath-blasts — a tiny pause, or caesura, thrown in the middle — the amount the poet can speak in one burst, getting it all down in time.
Vincent Katz
Chapbook
Rubber Band Binding. 52 pp, 7 x 7 in
Publication Date: March 01 2009
Distribution: Direct Only
Series: 6x6 #17