Where There's A Connection, Edges

Katey Nicosia

 

Dear silk-screened birds,

You will always be turquoise in mind-flight,

and I thought of screaming loudly

to make a bigger dusk.

 

I tried to hold the weight of movement.

My arm out,

I hoped someone would walk over it.

 

I hear you say something

about hiding from the sky,

what happens to patterns

when we close our eyes.

I said it's orange in there

and a little bit blue.

 

I played with the refrigerator magnets all afternoon,

reorganizing attraction

according to your syntax.

 

And you said

I'm about to touch a tree.

 

I stacked the red heart above the plastic starfish

and thought about being almost

but not

and never really.

 

Katey Nicosia's (TX)  poems have appeared in 32 Poems, LIT, can we have our ball back?, and elsewhere.


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