Work by Micah Ling
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Excited By the Burden
Posted in Reviews, November 2009
“These poems are careful and tight. Martinez Pompa gives entire worlds in 16 lines or less. He gets in and out just that fast. He makes you feel chest-heavy sadness, nostalgia, arousal, and fear. He takes your hand and shows you characters: some you know and some you don’t want to know; some are you...”
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Forcing a Need
Posted in Reviews, October 2009
First, this book is simply a nice thing to own. It’s handsome and square: pleasant to hold. Will Hubbard, Paul Killebrew and the folks at Ugly Duckling Presse made a fine package. The poems inside fit together like people on a Greyhound or in an elevator, but they also fit together like foodstuffs in a [...]
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XXVIII
Posted in Poetry, October 2009
Hike up the hill behind the stables, through thick grass until your joints pull and you feel the shakes. Hike to level land, past the still pond and into the pines. Pass the rusted equipment and the busted glass from the old hunting cabin. Wonder when the last grizzled man sat and warmed his feet [...]
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XXII
Posted in Poetry, October 2009
Nighttime and we sneak to the field where the pick-up trucks are parked like a pack of tired dogs. The tallest boy carries beers, cooled in the creek all afternoon. We turn the radio and headlights on in the truck furthest from the ranch. The beams run through the field to the east side of [...]
