STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
MARY ANN DIMAND
Today I cannot find
a bag of engine
parts. Cams, cogs,
belts, the tiny screws
without which universes
crumble, wandering
somewhere. I seek
their oily track, the scraps
of burlap in their teeth.
Or is it the vehicle
that’s gone, that moving
whole we run, that runs
us? My thumping piston
of a heart rattles
my gaskets— intake
valves, exhaust,
all clogged with rancid
rage and interdiction.
Mary Ann Dimand was born in Southern Illinois where Union North met Confederate South, and her work is shaped by kinships and conflicts: economics and theology, farming and feminism and history. Dimand holds an MA in economics from Carleton University, an MPhil from Yale University, and an MDiv from Iliff School of Theology. Her work is published or forthcoming in A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Agave Magazine, Apricity Magazine, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Bitterzoet Magazine, The Borfski Press, The Broken Plate, Chapter House Journal, The Charles Carter, The Ear, Euphony Journal, Faultline, and others.
