Dreck

FOUR POEMS FROM INDEX LETTERS
Nadia Niva & Judy Thorn

I HAVE A SECRET

Friendship
Friendship with a hog



GATHERING NUTS IN MAY

Found a peanut
Found a peanut, found a peanut
Found love



ETERNAL SPIRIT OF THE CHAINLESS MIND

Even in the quietest moments
Even me, even me

The evening is coming
Evening shades
The evening train

Ev’rybody wants to be a cat
Ev’ryone but me

Every day a little death
Every grain of sand
Every dollar carries trouble of its own

Everytime you go outside I hope it rains
Evil hearted me

Experiment in terror
The face in the fireplace
Face it, girl, it’s over



EMOTION DETECTOR

Draw me nearer
Dream, dream, dream

Dream of the archer
Dream of the dreamer

Drink a highball
Drink it down

Enjoy it
Enjoy the silence
Feel the fire

Find me a primitive man
Follow the gleam
Follow the swallow

Forget not the dead
Gently unveil her, unveil her

Get out now
Get out of town
Get up and bar the door
Get up and go

Get your fingers off my leg and your hand off my shoe

Give Ireland back to the Irish
Give me back my cool, clean water

Go away, you bother me
Go in and out the window
Go, tell the world

Go to sleep my dusky baby
Now go and leave me if you wish



Index Letters is assembled from the obsolete song title index cabinet at the Multnomah County Library.

Nadia Niva is a writer from the Pacific Northwest, and the host of a biweekly radio show on Freeform Portland. She is a fan of many things.

Judy Thorn was raised by a family of working class artists in the US, the UK, and Canada. She is editor of May Wall Press, a trans-operated literary project based in Portland.