Maria Hardin

Selected poems from Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether

PICA

the moon eats herself

like i eat the landscape like

               my body eats         her

selves    is        this nourishment

or violence is consumption care 

L’APPEL DU VIDE

i call you

earth       rub my face in your dirt

i call you

Heaven    as my body pulls

                           apart with the tide 

GLACIAL ERRATIC

fetishizing

nature words

crooning           algae adiantum

as my                maidenhair

washes down the drain 

PRELIMINARY (IM)MATERIALS

echolocating

the once was            i caw & claw

& coo i am dead

spectre of the young-girl tethered

to the promise of a life 

NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING I

longing to be

wounded i became the wound

longing to be

nothing i become everything

like some kind of sigh

Maria Hardin is a Swedish-American artist and bilingual poet based in Stockholm. She is the author of Cute Girls Watch When I Eat Aether (Action Books) and Sprawl Coquette (Creative Writing Department).