Making King Kong
Carla Sarett
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Marion Cooper
needed a monster.
So he made King
Kong upright.
His beast stood
like a human
killer. The real
challenge lay
in adjusting
the frame’s size
without nonstop
distortion, his
Kong could be
dwarfed by the
Empire State,
even a billboard.
Kong was King
but Cooper knew
his beast was puny
compared to
man-made things.
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A watercolor picture painted by Carla Sarett as a child getting ready for Halloween.
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Carla Sarett writes poetry, fiction, and, occasionally, essays; and she has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best American Essays, and Best of Net. She has published one full-length collection, She Has Visions (Main Street Rag, 2022), and two chapbooks, including My Family Was Like a Russian Novel (Plan B, 2023.) Recent poems appear in Potomac Review, Stonecoast Review, Harpy Hybrid, tiny wren, and Rust and Moth. Carla has a PhD from University of Pennsylvania and is based in San Francisco.
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Posted in "Boo"din: Creature Feature, Oct '24 and tagged in #boudin