Tak Erzinger's poem "Resident Alien"
Tak Erzinger is an award-winning poet. Her collection At the Foot of the Mountain, (Floricanto Press California, 2021) won the University of Indianapolis Etching Press, Whirling Prize 2021 for best nature poetry book. It was also a finalist at the Willow Run Book Awards and Eyelands Book Awards. She is an American/Swiss poet and artist with a Colombian background. She lives on a foothill of a Swiss alp with her husband and cats. Resident Alien They’ll believe they’ve tamed her house broken in a quiet pasture but never leave a stray alone she’ll discover unexplored corners to rip apart, open places long drawn closed and forgotten. At least, she’ll aim to please memorising every trick, trying to compensate for misplaced words. Novelty, it wears off with any pet, they’ll say she’s settled now and won’t visit anymore. Citizen: if you can talk the talk and walk the walk— you know, when in… But it’s still me: from the wild west h...