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Spotlight on Saint Flashlight and Writer Anya Banerjee

11/15/2021

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Will of the City Project
Featuring Exchange by Poet Anya Banerjee





Saint Flashlight has been featured on our page before and we deeply love and admire their commitment to releasing poetry into public spaces from theater marquees to slips of paper with mysterious phone numbers where those in the know can score a poem.  This time they're sending poetry into the wild with a little help from the world’s most famous playwright! The new project is called Will of the City and you can check it out by clicking on the link.
 
Saint Flashlight is partnering with Theatre for a New Audience to present poems inspired by William Shakespeare all during the fall.  This partnership spotlights the work of over a dozen writers on the outdoor screens at Polonsky Shakespeare Center – Theatre for a New Audience’s home in Fort Greene - into an anthology of poems inspired by Shakespeare’s plays.
 
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Sacred Chickens is happy to announce that we are able to share one of these poems – from a brilliant new writer, Anya Banerjee –  with our readers


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Poetry: Renwick Berchild

11/8/2021

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5 Poems 

Author, Renwick Berchild 


Whistler

Grasses
bob, the trees press, expand; press, expand as lungs.
Loyal
speaker, who spake the first murmurings—whistler at the window.
What’s
that? Faces stack, knotholes of wisps in the darkness,
agape
and wakeful just as I, truculent foreheads, lined lips, I’ve a wife
who
died, is she there? Another unholy moaner outside, watchful.

Whistler
at the window: See
the spinning? Hear the hive? Let a demon

hush
its language to you for a while. Let us in - let us in! I’ve a potion
in
my eye, an incantation beneath my fingernail. He lies - he lies!
Children
are burning in the cold - let us in, let us in, let us in in in!
Why
bake bread when you can steal it? Give us a bed to rest our lives.


Snake
winding round the globe, grey cloud a turret on the night’s mount
gliding
across the mirror black, little woman set, six arms weaving
at
the loom with superb finesse—but the hisser? Just a tail 
slick
as glass, sliding in its yowls, rabbit whining all through the twigs;
nimbus jugular ripe for tearing, a spilling
of rain; whistler sends regards.  

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