by Anne Kazak
Thin Thoughts
Unfleshed – puppet wires don’t show sideways
in my mirror, like dreams that shuffle sounds
of face cards made of mint-green leaves
or worn-out currency.
When Keats described negative capability,
he might have said slippery as in unhinged
feet on raw mud, a falter-slide down
a fogged-in hill where the graveyard waits.
So many thoughts go thin these days.
I reached to help a spider move out of the arc
where the front door swings. She hustled
up a thread and disappeared. That thin.
Tricia Knoll’s The Unknown Daughter was a finalist in the 2025 New England Poetry Club chapbook contest. Her poems appear in journals as diverse as Kenyon Review and New Verse News and nine collections, full-length or chapbook. Poems span a spectrum from eco-poetics to feminist explorations. She serves as a Contributing Editor to Verse Virtual. Website: triciaknoll.com Blue Sky: @triciaknoll.bsky.social Instagram: triciaknoll9539.
Anne Kazak is a psychologist and photographer who cannot remember a time when she didn’t have a camera in her hand. Using cameras or drones, she loves landscapes, capturing the beauty of nature, focusing on light, patterns, and telling a story about places. Her journeys draw her to abandoned spaces and the documenting the history of institutions. As vestiges of the past, these places prompt us to rethink the present. She also frequently uses diptychs or triptychs to juxtapose discrepancies and reveal unexpected connections. www.annekazakphotography.comhttps://www.instagram.com/annekazak.