Nicole Cooley

Aug 29, 2024 | thecommononline.org | Nicole Cooley |John Kinsella

New Poems by Our Contributors NICOLE COOLEY, DUY ĐOÀN, and JOHN KINSELLA. Table of Contents:Nicole Cooley, “Covanta, A Detail”Duy Đoàn, “Norepinephrine — “Suicides in Fiction Say Goodbye”John Kinsella, “Before Eurydice Was Bitten”Covanta, A DetailBy Nicole CooleyThe incinerator smoke an incision in the sky. My daughter no longer small yet still I want to swallow her back into my body. Sky a scalding. My daughter asks me to stop saying, I wish this wasn’t the world you have to live in.

Aug 8, 2023 | theguardian.com | Nicole Cooley

It’s the summer of Barbie, and I’m thinking about her Dream House. Not its recent incarnations – so much pink and plastic! – but the 1962 folding cardboard original. The studio apartment came with modest furnishings: a small bed, a couch, books, a TV. Yet this Dream House’s meaning resides in what it doesn’t contain: a kitchen, a bathroom, a nursery or a family. This is the mid-20th century bachelorette pad for a woman unencumbered by domestic obligations.