Tuesday Poem: ‘Of Ribbon’ by A.J. Huffman

A. J. Huffman

Of Ribbon

satin
strips
tied
into
bows
rainbowed
waves catching
breath of wind
genderized
streamers
for hair

A.J. Huffman has published eleven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her new full-length poetry collection, Another Blood Jet, is now available from Eldritch Press. She has another full-length poetry collection scheduled for release in Summer 2015, titled A Few Bullets Short of Home, from mgv2>publishing. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press

Franics Denis, Maternité aux fleurs

This poem kicks off the recent Poetry Special in Blue Five Notebook, along with art by French painter Francis Denis (which I’m sharing here too as I love the vibrancy of his work) and follows the theme at the Tuesday Poem hub this week (Wild Daisies by Bub Bridger, posted by Bel Hawkins) — that sometimes the simplest poems say paint such a clear image and say quite a lot. 

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Tuesday Poem is a collective of poets who share poetry on a weekly basis across borders and time zones. Please check out the other poets and the main poem at the TP hub this week — Wild Daisies by Bub Bridger, brought to us by Hub Editor Bel Hawkins.

For more Tuesday Poems, go here.