Issue 3.3
Fall 2023
Kerri Sonnenberg
Reflection
I am thinking about the private body and the public body, how porous the boundaries between each can become, particularly under the influences of fear/threat and pleasure/the sensual.
Food Truck Nite
unparalleled, the jerk
chicken for which I’ll risk
my life among the disgruntled
public, the base
ingredient is heat,
so many flags give fleeting
shade/relief
and the orange
sauce on the side
that costs extra
pretends to cool
the fire but then delivers
a punch, its own,
unseen.
we have to stop
and breathe
feel the parts per million
cycle hardiness
zones of tongue
in time
the revving
of a line
of crotch rockets
at the stop
light taking off,
popping first one
then several
wheelies.
Kerri Sonnenberg is author of The Mudra (Litmus Press). Recent work appears in Peripheries, The Arkansas International and Oversound. Originally from Illinois, she now lives in
Cork, Ireland.
Kerri's Book Recommendations:
A book that I’ve read umpteen times and that was certainly open near me when writing "Food Truck Nite" is Hoa Nguyen’s Your Ancient See Through. I love how kinetic her lines are—funny, sonic, chiming. In their dance with the quotidian they set churning some dark metaphysic in
the wings.