On August 3, the poet Jessica Laser visited the places of work of the Overview in Chelsea and handled us to a studying of her poem “Kings,” which seems in our Summer season difficulty. The poem, which our poetry editor Srikanth Reddy described as a “dreamy, autobiographical remembrance,” contains recollections of a ingesting recreation she used to play in highschool on Lake Michigan, and is charged with eros:
… You by no means knew
whether or not it could be strip or not, so that you all the time
thought-about sporting layers. It was summer time.
Generally you’d get fairly bare
nevertheless it wasn’t pushy. You would take off
one sock at a time.
An ideal poem to learn or hearken to within the canine days of August, as summer time flings is likely to be coming to an finish!
FROM “LAUREL NAKADATE AND MIKA ROTTENBERG,” A PORTFOLIO CURATED BY MARILYN MINTER, FROM ISSUE NO. 197, SUMMER 2011.
