Tag: Carrie Magness Radna

A dying glitter God 

Did most of the glitter 
blind your eyes 
as you tried to dig for gold 
with your silver spoon?  
 
Your promises are impossible  
as if we are traveling to Heaven 
through an eye of a needle 
in a camel’s eye— 
 
Your initial charm  
is mildly toxic as tangerine oxygen; 
while buried in pink Himalayan salt blocks, 
did you feel God yet? 
 
Or did all your promises 
fall by the wayside, 
as you sweated your songs out, 
trying to make things happen?

©2021 Carrie Magness Radna All rights reserved.

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal, Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rye Whiskey Review and First Literary Review-East. Her poetry collections: Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019, and In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was recently published in February 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York.

https://carriemagnessradna.com

Wolf Moon fog

My personal travail is strong today,
brain’s foggy as this morning
as I tried to gain footing
in the funky, mental mud—

I write a new myth:
sunshine bleeds into everything
through the park trees.
Fog is finally eaten up by the sky.

But I stay in,
waiting for the full Wolf Moon
to make an appearance
before I howl out
my blue mood,
obliterating it—

Still spooked by
another heartsick wind,
I turned my goddess ID in
& listened to comedians gawk
as I slowly got bombed
on G&Ts like a drunk hawk
flying—

Will your love save me tonight?
Or do you have to work late,
as I wait to gain shape
and feelings once again?

©2021 Carrie Magness Radna All rights reserved.

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal, Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, Rye Whiskey Review and First Literary Review-East. Her poetry collections: Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019, and In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was recently published in February 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York. https://carriemagnessradna.com

Uma Margot (no. 87 of Women’s names sensual series)

I’m no pretty mental patient, man!
This is the first year in along time
I didn’t want to kill myself—

I have no fear of Alphabet City.
The whinos and druggy bastards,
these are my people. Punk is alive—

a water-logged torture device,
an asterisk in a row of commas.
I’ll sing the contents of the telephone book

if that would keep me grounded,
like the growl of my lover’s electric bass,
before she’ll scowl at the audience.

Bopping and head-butting to the beats,
I feel the most alive here,
more electric than Spanish fly.

©2021 Carrie Magness Radna All rights reserved.

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at the New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves to travel. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal, Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII-X), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press), was published in December 2019. Her newest poetry collection, In the blue hour (Nirala Publications), was published February 15, 2021. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan, New York. https://carriemagnessradna.com

Before the werewolf’s wedding

Before the wedding,
she pulled off her red underwear
and growled, trying to hide her fur.

Is she running towards something, or away?
Why? Is the moon too full,
the sky too pitch black, or purple?
Does she wish for a world without night?

She howled louder than a horse
riding across the room;
We need to lay down the lace
in a quieter space—

Like snow, silence is a magic ingredient.
The white dress, once ripped in two
will be mended before sunrise.

She is too calm then,
waiting for the morning,
feeling no longer cursed—

nails now short and polished
and hair braided with flowered vines,
her teeth still shine.

©2020 Carrie Magness Radna All rights reserved.

Carrie Magness Radna is an audiovisual cataloger at New York Public Library, a choral singer and a poet who loves traveling. Her poems have previously appeared in The Oracular Tree, Mediterranean Poetry, Muddy River Poetry Review, Poetry Super Highway, Shot Glass Journal, Vita Brevis, Home Planet News, Cajun Mutt Press, Walt’s Corner, Polarity eMagazine, The Poetic Bond (VIII & IX), Alien Buddha Press, Jerry Jazz Musician, and First Literary Review-East. Her first poetry collection, Hurricanes never apologize (Luchador Press) was published in December 2019. Born in Norman, Oklahoma, she now lives with her husband in Manhattan.