Carleen Tibbetts
Winter 2025 | Poetry
nouns are just things to be taken apart
a blurred cross-section of a girl/shorn of eloquence/the meat of your brains/to backward the self into not this body/to try again/how to prominent this lack/a mark/a measure/a humming where a face should be
Carleen Tibbetts is the author of dossier for the postverbal (Carrion Bloom Books, 2023) and DATACLYSM.jpg as well as a number of chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Sink, jubilat, The Offending Adam, The Notre Dame Review, the tiny, The Laurel Review, The Pinch, DREGINALD, Deluge, Forklift Ohio, and many other publications.