Kate Adams

Born in San Francisco, Kate Adams is a writer now living in Mountain View, California. Previous work has appeared in Centennial Review, Zzyzzyva, the Journal of The Wallace Stevens Society, and the Sand Hill Review. Her work has won awards from the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation, in poetry and in ﬁction. She is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of Fault Zone, the anthology published by the SF Peninsula branch of the California Writers’ Club. Poets of inﬂuence include Matthew Arnold, Wallace Stevens, and Gjertrude Schnackenberg.

“Around the Final Bend” and “Lovely Scene”

Song, take these rhymes and carry them abroad.
Lift your little wings and beat and beat
like in some Disney ﬁlm. The Greeks had gods,
the Christians, Christ. We moderns have the heat
of giants booming from the screen. Our stars
take close-up orbits, Venus kissing Mars.

Issue 76, August 2023

Kate Adams

Born in San Francisco, Kate Adams is a writer now living in Mountain View, California. Previous work has appeared in Centennial Review, Zzyzzyva, the Journal of The Wallace Stevens Society, and the Sand Hill Review. Her work has won awards from the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation, in poetry and in ﬁction. She is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of Fault Zone, the anthology published by the SF Peninsula branch of the California Writers’ Club. Poets of inﬂuence include Matthew Arnold, Wallace Stevens, and Gjertrude Schnackenberg.

“Around the Final Bend” and “Lovely Scene”

Song, take these rhymes and carry them abroad.
Lift your little wings and beat and beat
like in some Disney ﬁlm. The Greeks had gods,
the Christians, Christ. We moderns have the heat
of giants booming from the screen. Our stars
take close-up orbits, Venus kissing Mars.

Issue 76, August 2023

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