Catherine of Siena Fucks Up The Club

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Catherine of Siena Fucks Up The Club1 Kt Herr (bio) Keywords poetry, KT Herr, weapons, violence, dancing, religion while we yellowed in the pale strobes rumors began to arrive of a wide floor blown open of some clever thing slipping acrossthe uncertain perimeter of our generous borders like a thief stealing the hearth from their own house foaming out around the clamorous feet of my brethren was a thick red danceI couldn’t turn from one hand against my bottom lip one bright fist flashing toward the ground as out of His divine void the sound of trumpets + a rat-a-tat a sharp report like thunder or His voice on my neck capturing the flight of a bird through smashed glassthe ceiling’s blue laser rolling toward Heaven like an eye [End Page 94] Kt Herr kt herr is a queer poet, songwriter, and curious person with poems appearing in Black Warrior Review, Frontier, ANMLY, and elsewhere. KT is currently a C. Glenn Cambor PhD Fellow in critical poetics at the University of Houston, a board member with Four Way Books, and co-host of Coordinates: A Podcast for Writers & Readers. NOTE 1. In the late1320s, gunpowder arrived in Italy. In March 1347, Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena. In November 2022, a gunman entered Club Q in Colorado Springs and opened fire, killing five people and wounding seventeen. Copyright © 2023 The Massachusetts Review, Inc