Karla Linn Merrifield

Karla Linn Merrifield has had 800+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 14 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the 2019 full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press.

In early 2021, her Half a World of Kisses will be published by Truth Serum Press (Australia) under its new Lindauer Poets imprint. She is currently at work on a poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars; the book is slated to be published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY).

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► Karla's microchaps & selected poems are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap
The Beginner’s Boner Études
Click title to download PDF microchap Cover photo by Michele Ashlee, 2019 •	Étude 8-2: Posture sit forward on the sofa straighten your spine spread your legs let the instrument rest nestled on your right thigh Étude 8-3: Day 3 Come to Mama: Does the D chord make you hard cuz it’s so hard for me to do? Étude 8-19: Practice Hey, Boner, Happy day, my fingertips hurt, boy, hurt me to the bone. But it's what you ask of me. It is what you ask of me.	Étude 9-2: Metronome Twenty minutes starting now, Boner; let’s call it a quickie. Étude 9-21: Repeat Boner, think of it—twice in one day I’m back to see if love has kept us alive. God, Boner, you are so beautiful. I come again. Étude 12-5: Same Position Come, Boner, let us do moveable chords, fret up D by D# by— I will finger you neck-long; I will D toward—O! sweet spots. Karla Linn Merrifield © 2020
Cuisine Kisses
Click title to download PDF microchap Cover photo by author, stylized • Download every microchap for free from this website. (Set printer for landscape)	Extra Virgin This kiss is oily, pressed from Andalusian olives. • Curried When I add a pinch of cayenne, I kick it up a notch, then stir in a smidgen more of ground cloves— Bam!—This aromatic kiss! • Karla Linn Merrifield © 2019	High Tea Foreplay This kiss takes its joy first in scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, fortified with Twinings’ best. Then: your afternoon delight. • A La Carte This palatable kiss emerged from a salad of figs and goat cheese, tender beetroot and walnuts— with a splash of Muscadet. • Karla Linn Merrifield © 2019