Beauty is Divided Freely

A feeling blinking
Rattling with pinks
A fault of the eye
Of the passenger
A rift, the tongue
The drifting skin of the future
Cold exposure
Marked poise
A slit in the soft light
Silica supplicants
Beauty is divided freely
Dropping out of time
Frustrating the experience
The cold world
Bears description
Along the sad corridors
Of heavy time


Carleen Tibbetts is the author of dossier for the postverbal (Carrion Bloom Books, 2023), DATACLYSM.jpg (White Stag, 2019), DATACLYSM.jpg (Radioactive Cloud, 2018), and to exosk(elle), the last sugar (Zoo Cake Press, 2015). Her work has appeared in TYPO, jubilat, Sink, The Pinch, The Laurel Review, Datableed, Deluge, Dreginald, and other journals. She edits poetry for Dream Pop Press.