Rochelle Hurt is the author of two books of poetry: In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), which won the Barrow Street Book Prize, and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014). She lives in Pittsburgh and teaches at Slippery Rock University.
Sept/Oct 2022
Three Poems
[pulling silk from stone starts with explosion: clink of tooth-chisel chewing out clothes, feet, crown. an expulsion of self from self that doesn’t end but slows. four years perfecting.
Fall 2012
Diorama of a Funeral; Diorama of a Tiny Death
Diorama of a Funeral
I pour a salt solution into the shoebox, enough
to float the whole chrysanthemum rigmarole—
rubber bouncy balls: my aunts like buoys
in a sea of black felt, draped like mourning