Tracey K Smith

Question 1

Joy

Answer 1

“a girl again”
“You are nine years old, playing hospital with your sisters”
“They’ve made the room dark”
“Traffic transparent tubes”
“Chord of light”

Question 2

The Searchers

Answer 2

“Grabs her”
“The impossible wish to forget”
“Grip it hang on/horse”
“A beast that big could wreck us easily
“And send us soaring like/cheap toys”
“Do we insist our lives are ours. Look at the frontier. It didn’t resist. Gave anyone the chance”

Question 3

The Universe is a House Party

Answer 3

“It sounds like the party Your neighbours forget to invite you to”
“We’ll welcome with indefatigable hospitality”
“How marvelous you’ve come”
“Pinprick mouths” “nubbin limbs”
“Mi casa es su casa”
“Of course, it’s ours. If its anyone it’s ours”

Question 4

The Museum of Obsolescence

Answer 4

“watches us watch it, our faulty eyes, our/hearts”
“There’s green money and oil in drums” “titter”
“Recounting the wars”
“A living man sits on display/he’ll describe the old beliefs”
“A mirror - someones idea of a joke”
“An image of the old planet taken from space” with “vendors”

Question 5

The Universe as Primal Scream

Question 6

All the poems

Answer 6

The Searchers
The universe as Primal scream
The universe is a house party
Joy
The Museum of Obsolescence