Rooftop Poetry Club - s. m. hutton

s. m. hutton

Bio:
s. m. hutton has been published in the SUNY at Buffalo Undergraduate Poetry magazine [the advancing idiom], Artvoice and The Buffalo News. She was the winner of the 2006 SUNY at Buffalo Libraries Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry.

She received her B.A. from SUNY at Buffalo, NY in Media Study. Until 1995, she studied and worked as an independent video and film production artist. Her recent literary work has included some experiments in digital literature and poetry production.

She lives in Williamsville, NY.

Poems:

The Post-Modern Shaman

conjures.
(A ride to the give and take creak of saddle leather.)
Hooves step carefully over a place
in an eerie primordial mud where a very
strange anemic plant branches
under the thick thatch of last season’s grasses.
A hoof sucks at the same mud the odd plant roots in.

This is no crossword puzzle,
there’s no way to make it come out neatly.

Grasping at spring gnats,
there are two suns in the plant’s heaven.

The Reverend

A skeleton marionette hangs
on the wall from a sconce
as I read the ad for a baby store
on his desk "...for your after birth needs..."
He says, "Job might regret telling God
'Show your face'".
And he says, "God may be working through you."
Is that where he’s been all this time?
It would explain so much.

freestyle swimming III

reach pull flutter come back daddy reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter great lakes shoreline reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter small child fingers reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter sunshine fervent reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter small child thinking reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter sand warms bottom reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter small child feeling reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter box lunch waiting reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter his strokes ceaseless reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter not quite nearness reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter parallel shoreline reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter beyond not away reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter child sits waiting reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter coextensive reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter child keeps vigil reach pull flutter
reach pull flutter Come back Dad now! Reach