Sunday, January 13, 2008

Poems by Christina Vega-Westhoff (USA 1982)



So much distraction in personal planetarium



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Somewhere in Europe they rescue a whale.

They firm up their leadership.

The new reality is empire is egotistical.

It is a myth that we cannot be found.

No word of cells.

There is an “Earth Liberation Front,”

They have machines made that replicate their signature.

The whale gets more ratings than Bin Laden.



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Because there was a large imported ship.

No one to call but the neighbors.

It worked the same way with orders congested.

The veins spread.



You can’t pick where you leave from




We thought just because they arrived with trash bags they were here to clean the city.

But they were here to wipe our mouths with razor blades.

Here to pour the rust down our veins. They stole our undershirts.



Germination



It had survived its normal process of evolution.

The occasionally successful seed dispersion

Most often by the tapir on fairly dry forest

And genetically you want to seem very palatable,



If it was less attractive, fewer horses would eat it.

Therefore attraction is for eating.

The rocks, the rocks return.



For this the diseases touch us.

Like the beat or the river front.

Great large bowl used for boiling

And ten thousand years ago was the age of Giant Sloth.

And the missing link in Ethiopia. And you know.



Learn about your predators in incremental steps.

Using the facts that prove your point…

Man or ice age or death?




© Christina Vega-Westhoff
Born in Austin, Texas in 1982, Christina Vega-Westhoff now lives in Columbia, Missouri where she works as a substitute English Language Learner teacher. She was the poetry contest winner for the University of New Orleans 2007 Summer Study Abroad. She worked as visiting editor of Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua’s literary magazine Literal Ink 4.1 (2005).
Christina holds a B.A. in Latin American Studies and English-Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
During her visit to Panama (2007-2008) she gets in touch with some local writers and a series of new collaborations start.

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