Psychological Evaluation Through Shadow Puppets
First, make a bird. Very well. Its wings gently grasp black. Does it sing to you? Is it trapped or freed by your hands? Why has it not flown away? Dorsa together, curl the left, fingers forward, a rabbit appears. Will it survive the winter? Can it elude the slender outline of a coyote’s jaw? Shape a heart, does its… Read more →
Ode to Pomegranates
as winter arrives delicate seeds falling through crimson-stained fingers
Running Water
A pregnant cat licking its fuzzy belly in a warm drizzle -Richard Wright In my shaking hand: a pee-soaked strip of plastic. At my feet, bare and cold on the February floor: a cat. We look at each other. I’m pregnant, I announce. I’m thirsty, she replies without words, turn on the faucet so I can drink. At the sound… Read more →
Tadpoles
hundreds the size of nailheads spawn in what shallows our banks contain darklets in mudclouds clay my brother stirs in fistfuls to sieve through between spaces of fingers here we are stillwater disturbances the canoe slicing into canebrakes the mobile of lures caught twisted in the limbs of trees we shade in we the waterbugs we the herons who stand… Read more →
Let’s Steal A Kiss
These are the days of wonder when dusk runs a thousand miles to meet me waking up in the morning; red and blue clouds pile up behind the mango tree where I hid during the war to escape the barrage of bullets cascading down our roof, where bats gathered in the hot air, stealing the flowers and our breath and… Read more →