Work by Krystal Languell

  1. Going Full Hog

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    Do they call it a hog roast or a pig roast where you’re from? (Do you know what I’m talk­ing about?) I’m on Team Hog Roast.

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  2. Joy

    Posted in Poetry, September 2009

    Dug up from the back­yard
    like a cat skele­ton, sur­prise like
    a clang when your shovel hits hard.
    There’s no prob­lem here,
    only exactly what we deserve.
    This clean moment we have earned
    arrives & noth­ing looks a bit like death.

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  3. Before I Met You

    Posted in Poetry, September 2009

    You saw the creek
    clogged with garbage
    once
    and it was beau­ti­ful
    and you never told me
    or anyone else.

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  4. Against Anarchy

    Posted in Poetry, September 2009

    Nibbling at some­thing against its belly,
    the ham­ster bends like an otter does
    to eat as it floats until the thing rolls away
    and she begins to wash her face red.
    The sit­u­a­tion torques as I assem­ble clues
    about sex and her mate, red-nosed, sniff­ing
    her tail, licks his paws of thick paint.
    Foreign blood always looks like this.
    There is a lump [...]

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