My poem, The Knee Poem, was published and selected as Editor’s Choice for the Ocotillo Review! I had the pleasure of reading it at Malvern Books in Austin, TX this summer.
To see me read the poem, click this link to the video: The Knee Poem Reading
The Knee Poem
By Lindsey Lane
Skinned knees
Scabby knees
Fall out of a tree and pick yourself up knees
Tucked knees
Cannon ball tight knees
Make a splash knees
Knobby kneed
Knock kneed
Nylons bagging, trying to grow up too fast knees
These knees
These knees
These simply bending
Knees
Silky knees
Charleston knees
Playing peekaboo behind hands knees
Teasing like winking eyes under skirts knees
Ooo…the bee’s knees
Make me weak in the knees
Crawl across hot sand and broken glass a million miles to kiss those knees
Swooning, fall into your arms knees.
These knees
These knees
These simply bending
Knees
Scarred knees
Scrubbing floors knees
Twenty bucks-a-pop
Please don’t. I’ll never do it again knees.
Wounded knee
Boy, Get on your knees
Put your hands behind your back knees
Knee jerk, gun to the head knees
Fuck no
Take a knee
Bent
Bent down
Bent over
Bent up
Bent too long
Worn out
These knees can be replaced
Kneeling knees
Prayer knees
Feeling small at the alter of something big knees
Dig in the earth, dirt stained knees
Chubby baby wobbling into your lap
Begin again, crawling out of the muck
These knees
These knees
They simply bend.