Kathleen Reichelt writes stage plays, screenplays, poetry, reviews, articles and interviews with other artists. Her poems appear in Suitcase of Chrysanthemums (great weather for Media, NYC, 2018), Otoliths (Australia, 2018, 2019) and have been performed at Le Poisson Rouge (Three Rooms Press Launch, NYC, 2017, 2018, 2019), Versefest (Ottawa, 2019), The Secret Handshake Gallery (Toronto 2018, 2019) and Words & Music (Montreal, 2018)
summer night in brooklyn was first published as high jinks in issue 52 of Otoliths, February 2019
summer night in brooklyn
rattling tin can collects echoes on a narrow street of buildings three stories high face to face she is counting beats between each kick distracting her heavy pause reply fingers suspended over keyboard eyes scanning moonless night wind too tired to pass through this room the small window propped open with last night's tomato can metal rings of jupiter bouncing back the street light spell summer buzzing metal boxes dripping on the sidewalk below she counts kicks for ten blocks at least makes a wish hears a dog bark waits for it to break
bluebird was first performed at sound one two, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, 2017
blue bird
minus 30 is deep diving first kiss territory what will happen next is this going to last? white a flash of teeth smiling through slow dancing my chest a freezer delivering a letter twenty 5 years later stepping into snow holes made bigger by boots before mine my eyes flood with marriage sigh of horses highway 2 curving rounding repeating confusing love songs with a blue bird's wing what it means to be forty, fifty, seventy 9 i take your hand swallow your fingers in mine understand better these bare trees this salted road our chosen place where sonnets grow while sleeping bulbs turn to light where brooms gather up corners where longing passes unnoticed under bridges currents travel below ice you dare to tread all the while holding steady always arriving always returning the shape of your face against my lips i can retrieve it on the coldest day in winter, here