iii.
early modern world
of soggy waffles
and piss pot bread
left to my own devices
sipping tepid beer on
a vinyl padded stool
under pink lights
flamingo loves out
of season palms
avocado paste pudding
with fried potato salad
pickled leather boots
cold from seaweed puddles
and coriander bath
which way is back
to the Chantal Ackerman
tour bus?
Allison Grimaldi Donahue (b. Middletown, Conn.) the author of Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016) and the co-author of On Endings (Delere Press, 2019). She is translator of Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait (Divided, 2021) and Blown Away (Fomite, 2021) by vito m. bonito. Her writing and translations have appeared in places like The Brooklyn Rail, Words Without Borders, Flash Art, BOMB, NERO and Tripwire, and she has recently performed at Kunsthalle Bern, Cabaret Voltaire, MACRO, MAMbo, the Cross Foundation, and Short Theatre Rome. Her multilingual poetry installation reimaging Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities through the lens of contemporary immigration is presently exhibited at MACTE Termoli. She lives in Bologna, Italy.