Writing a Living: with Hal Sundt
Hal Sundt talks poetry, writing, and why it matters, with prizewinning poet and Columbia graduate student Elizabeth Metzger, and she reads a new piece just published on Catch & Release, “Essential Tremor”:
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ESSENTIAL TREMOR
—by Elizabeth Metzger
Hell is just the clapper of the bell
that announces you
are no longer the beloved.
The world turns out to be one humid mediocre day.
I take a machete to a tulip.
Where death is something you can fuck up
the broken heart rolls three blank dice.
The psychic says it says a lot.
Everything blushes but my ego
now dumbed down for “sleep.”
A crowd of phenom-hermits
expects a planet to arrive.
I hear in heaven
the angel has a harelip
and she is willing to watch you shake.
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