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File This Under Supernova
for meg
now it is i saying "forgive me"
for having the mar of blackholes on my mapscape,
for dreaming in the snowglobe of my home city
to stay where clothes hung limp
growing inedible lichens in the buttonholes
with a view of chile's sugarloaf in my vantage point
and enough rolled up billetes
to buy only reverance
forgive the trespasses of my skeletons
and the dust they make in these eaves
your ink and the poems that turned to silt
in the terrible trenches of window ledges
bowed with the things that fly off of them
of ashtrays shattering six times before abandon
of histories the preceded and predicted
of small parts in staged places, of informalities
and of the wretched murk of waking.
July Westhale is a poet and activist with a weakness for botany and hot air balloons. in 2004 she won the Out!
Redwood Lesbian Rainbow Literary Award for Prose and was published in College of the Redwood’s literary journal, Poets
and Writers. In August 2010, she was invited to participate in and publish with InterDisciplinary's International
Conference on Performance Theory in Prague with her article "Entrails and the Bedroom: Sexual and Geographical
Borderlands in Queer Bodies". Her poetry has been published in Spork Literary Press (November 2010), Bitch You
Left Me, and Tule Press. Her fiction has published in Full of Crow (January, 2011). She is a graduate of Mills
College and is currently working on her MFA in Creative Writing at California College of the Arts.
She lives and writes in an attic in Alameda with her two cats, z and blue.
Email: July Westhale
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