Talk by Noelle Kocot - Poems | Academy of American Poets

My body is 
A little 
Green sea.

Bears bathe
In it
Then go to

Sleep in the 
Basement.
A four-wheeler

Slams past,
And then the 
Sea splashes

Around and 
Around.  
O little sea,

O my body,
Sit here with me
While I just talk.

Credit

Author

Noelle Kocot

Noelle Kocot is the author of nine collections, including Ascent of the Mothers (Wave Books, 2023); God’s Green Earth (Wave Books, 2020); and Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013). Kocot’s poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry in 2001, 2012, and 2013.

Kocot is the recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, The Fund for Poetry, and the American Poetry Review. They were also the recipient of a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.

Date Published

12/20/2011