FIVE POEMS by GOLDIE PEACOCK
12.2.21
Today is a palindrome day.
This is a palindrome day.
How is this life even possible?
Convergence of molecules,
most improbable.
Catches on fire,
Tinder, Grindr,
after culling and cuffing of Scorpio.
You feel like a pufferfish,
ate too much ginger,
full of your palindrome day.
Gratitude moves
in an upward spiral,
morning black tea and
Happy Light writing,
evening rose tea and
Zoom ring light writing.
This is a palindrome day.
Today is a palindrome day.
hello, South Node Eclipse dreams
weird dreams of weed
having to shit
a weed dealer being mean
instead of biting back you
call the meanness out
not reading into everything
appalling heart*
no longer so
instead, softened by the wind.
*phrase taken from title of the poem by Elsa von Freytag-LoringhovenSlapping some shoulds outta the way I
rub my almost third-eye headache
kvetch to my journal, whine whine whine
then muse about a future where
people can’t parse handwriting
so when I cross
the threshold
these pages
will have no choice but to be useful
spears averted into ploughshares,
reincarnated as ash.
of everything that called to be released
Pepto, Advil, CBD
turn that little excuse-y voice’s no—
cramp ghost stoplight—
into go.
Dusk may glower earlier but
light’s return tap-taps adrenals.
I read How to Do Nothing;
the act of reading contradicts.
a late March 2020 correspondence between siblings living in NYC
My brother Tweets: “What
are your niche forums
saying re: COVID?
Spot I’ve been lurking
is like ‘buy a spear
gun, raise some chickens,
get a small amount
of precious metals.’”
I Tweet: “Mine are like
‘my ayahuasca
trip told me this sitch
has been lovingly
co-created by
the universe and
oh, look, dolphins!’”
As a performer and art model, Goldie Peacock spent over a decade bouncing between frenetic movement and absolute stillness before chilling out and becoming a writer. Their work appears in HuffPost, Wild Roof Journal, Sundog Lit, and DRAGS, a book showcasing NYC's drag superstars. They live in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY, USA). You can find them more often on Instagram and less often on Twitter.