1 Poem by Sarah Brenner and Sophie Ewh
CAFE SOCIAL + 1
If I were to picture you lovely
Slide your foot inside the fuzzy bunny
Never mind the emptiness of the body
She’d flip me over and call me gaudy
If I were to pray for your chest
Split at the seam, discover the nest
Congress of animals tell no truth
That homely calf, that untrimmed uncouth
Waste washes the pulpit of you
To flock together is all I wanted to do
In the field, in the stream, in the filthy street
Your precious pink of toes so meek
Have you worshipped the smell of abstinence?
Legless animals can’t take a stance
A note about the collaboration:
Like so many others featured in Knife Room, we began collaborating poetically because of Matthew Rohrer’s craft course at NYU. However, while sitting on the window bench at Cafe Social in the East Village, writing this poem, we realized we’d met once before, on a roof in DUMBO. We’d exchanged contact information that night, but got caught up in classes, work, drama, etc. and didn’t get to discussing our shared love for B-horror movies, vegan food, iced coffee, etc. until Matthew had us collaborate for his course. This poem is an honest-to-god collaboration, each of us providing one line at a time to fill in the sonnet form. It was also a premonition of the cozy yet otherworldly places our friendship was about to reach.
Sarah Brenner is a robot pelican intent on eradicating human trafficking from the internet.
Sophie Ewh is a high schooler too embarrassed to kiss you but just pretentious enough to reference Stravinsky.
Like so many others featured in Knife Room, we began collaborating poetically because of Matthew Rohrer’s craft course at NYU. However, while sitting on the window bench at Cafe Social in the East Village, writing this poem, we realized we’d met once before, on a roof in DUMBO. We’d exchanged contact information that night, but got caught up in classes, work, drama, etc. and didn’t get to discussing our shared love for B-horror movies, vegan food, iced coffee, etc. until Matthew had us collaborate for his course. This poem is an honest-to-god collaboration, each of us providing one line at a time to fill in the sonnet form. It was also a premonition of the cozy yet otherworldly places our friendship was about to reach.
Sarah Brenner is a robot pelican intent on eradicating human trafficking from the internet.
Sophie Ewh is a high schooler too embarrassed to kiss you but just pretentious enough to reference Stravinsky.