THRU Magazine Archive
A compilation of image and text by Portland-based poet, Brandi Katherine Herrera. It is a lyrical response to the death of her sister on 10/13/1984, now thirty-one years ago. I experienced Brandi Katherine Herrera’s poetry for the first time at Poetry Press week in December, 2014. Portions of DYING ONE IN TIME, Herrera’s manuscript and […]
How the soul moves It must be a tricky business it lingers, hovers stealthily an invisible silence a swift inhabitation the soul awaits to startle the body In wordless voice it moves from room to room turning lights on spends a lifetime ever longing to be heard In other countries Somewhere in a dream in […]
Sometimes, I still smell you on street corners. When the wet lust of the sun lays a lung on us. One long breath between the piss and the matrimony of skin and brick. Shape-shifter, you follow like a spirit dog. You swallowed me. Easy on the gut. I was. Too weak to speak on god. […]
Wore it like a witch tracing fingertips along a silver belly. Snake River. Shivered twice as onyx trailed behind, once for me, once for mine. Pagan whispers bade, inch closer, further the ermine. Drips of a soul folded into the jagged excrement of that bluff. That blind chasm. Widows peak, it seemed, sublime. Drunk on […]
A gentle cup in overflow finds the form of a shape so patient. Thumbs bristling inward graze on skin sprawling as a field of heather scented of earthy kin. They motion toward a door guarding a fevered tongue. Lungs fill and expel petals that mouth a song upon rolling hills of a foreign ground. From […]