Tobi Cogswell


 

 

Distilled

     art of becoming undrunk
warp and weft
                                               rejection

 “my husband is a percussionist”
       
sound of pencils
violins

        lips      adore
cut grass
         green to glass

 moth wings in a glass jar

human conscience

 pared      paired

brandy/fumes
  metronome

fragile fabric of eyelids


 

Tobi Cogswell is a Pushcart nominee and co-recipient of the first annual Lois and Marine Robert Warden Poetry Award from Bellowing Ark. Her work can be read in Willow Review, Rhino, Slab, Blue Earth Review and Askew among others, and is coming in Decanto (UK) and Iodine Poetry Journal. She has three chapbooks and her full-length poetry collection “Poste Restante” is available from Bellowing Ark Press. She is the co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.sprreview.com).