Kathleen Ossip
BLUEBIRD
Today I sing in
a green and golden place.
My little eyes blink
in my little blue face.
My little song says
Truly truly.
The cat sits watching
coolly coolly
and no one minds if
I’m she or him
and my little heart beating
dee-dim dee-dim.
KATHLEEN OSSIP is the author of The Do-Over, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; The Cold War, a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2011; and The Search Engine, selected by Derek Walcott for the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. July is forthcoming in 2021.
ISSUE EIGHT features poetry by Brent Armendinger, Amanda Auerbach, Jenny Browne, Oni Buchanan, jayy dodd, Robert Fernandez, Jennifer Hasegawa, Valerie Hsiung, Troy Jollimore, David Kirby, David Lehman, Erika Meitner, Miguel Murphy, Daniel Nester, Kathleen Ossip, Emily Pettit, Sean Singer, Ed Skoog, and Elizabeth Willis; fiction by Lucy Corin, David Crouse, Cynthia Cruz, Nicholas Delbanco, Marcos Giralt Torrente, and Stuart Nadler; nonfiction by Elisa Albert, Kelle Groom, Kirsten Kaschock, Nadia Owusu, and Enrique Vila-Matas; film essays by Justin Phillip Reed; and an interview with Elizabeth Willis.