i'm over at the waffle house

April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate, my beautiful friend Terresa Wellborn is doing a series of posts to spotlight poets on her blog The Chocolate Chip Waffle.  I was very honored to be asked to participate today.  So, please pop over and say hello.

Terresa happens to be a very talented poet in her own right.  Here's one of my personal favorites:


Thirteen Ways to Kill Your Heart


Cut it out of your chest
and clawing earth,
bury it.

Climb an impossible cliff and
drop it. Watch it fall,
the majesty.

Boil it until
it screams. Listen in
migratory bliss.

Visit a farm,
feed it to swine.

Stuff it's mouth with newspaper,
suffocate it blue.

Skewer and roast it over an open flame.

With a noose not too loose,
hang it until it's neck snaps.
Flap.

Overdose it with sleeping pills,
in every orifice.

Bludgeon it with a hammer,
hatchet, or anything with a handle.

Abandon it to vultures,
the Mojave Desert will do.

With a knife.

Run it over with your car,
repeatedly.

Eat it.



Terresa Wellborn

Speaking of poetry, don't forget my debut chapbook is now available for pre-order.  I was chosen as a semi-finalist in the Finishing Line Press 2010 Open Chapbook Competition.  Patina, is a 26 page collection of some of my very first poetry, stemming from my love of ancestry and all things vintage.

Finishing Line is a small press and depends on authors to help promote their books. I have an advance sales period of approximately four more weeks, before the pressrun is determined.  So, if you are interested in purchasing a copy, it would help me out tremendously if you would pre-order a copy today.  Click on the link below:

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The poetics of Tess Kincaid's Patina balance between discipline and whimsy. Her lyrics and character sketches achieve something many poets do not even try to do:  bring us characters trying to love the world, and a world fertile with sacraments of meaning.        --Annie Finch

Tess Kincaid’s Patina is aptly named, with its acute sense of how the past taints the present and its impressive demonstration of how the poetry of this moment bears the shadow of centuries of tradition.
 --John Biguenet

A huge thank-you to all who have already placed an order.  Your generous support is invaluable, my friends. You're the best.