Advent Calendar Day 11 - November 22
Excerpt from Glitches in the FBI—found poems by Amaris Ketcham
Today’s bookish delight is perfect for the X-Files fan and readers of unexpected poetry.
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Glitches in the FBI
“Amaris Ketcham, juggling bright images triggered by dialogue from The X-Files, turns her poet-play on such diversity as aliens, foxes, Lake Okoboji. Bizarre or warmly ordinary, her words take sudden rights, lefts, and lift-offs. ‘You’re just getting motion sickness / from enlightenment,’ she writes, as she shows us that portals to other worlds—or this one—are anywhere they open.”
—Betsy James, author of Breathing Stone
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Foxfire Spirit
repurposed dialogue from Season 2, Episode 24
Leaving town was just a formality.
Good people chasing some sweet young
superstition. Most legends don’t leave
behind hang-ups and turn-offs.
Push comes to shove, and the whole town
welcomes a new story about hill people
massacres, swamp gas in the field,
scorched remnants of spirits.
Like some high-speed repetitive activity
layabouts ward off determination. Man is a line
hypnosis. Troublemakers cling tight
witch pegs in their hands and folly stuffing
their pillows at night. Some men build towns
some just chop away at them until the bonfire’s
burned down and the faith once fed on ritual alone
passes through the spongelike holes in our stories.
Read more of these otherworldly poems in GLITCHES IN THE FBI
by Amaris Feland Ketcham
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About the Author
Amaris Feland Ketcham occupies her time with open space, white space, CMYK, flash nonfiction, long trails, f-stops, line breaks, and several Adobe programs running simultaneously. Her award-winning writing has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Los Angeles Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, the Utne Reader, and dozens of other venues. She is the author of the graphic memoir Unfiltered: A Cancer Year Diary (from Casa Urraca Press) as well as Best Tent Camping: New Mexico and A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains. She has painted murals across Albuquerque, acted in a radio drama about the Badlands National Park, and taken students on multi-week camping trips along the Lewis and Clark Trail.