Issue 12: | March 2022 |
Cherita Sequence: | 78 words |
I’ve become an outline pasted on the moon shadow sung by tree frogs, collapsing mineshaft fantasy in talc wind-drenched pauper of stars. ~ I’ve become an empty snakeskin rattle, circle of invisible hawks trail smirk, sand puppet scavenging resinous dreams. ~ I’ve become a rumor hidden in parquet absence overgrown shiver of tissue, sky breath humming a dirge. ~ I’ve become a spray of dead asters holding their shape brittle afterthought in a vase of echoes.
is a poet, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and the editor of Spirit Fire Review. Her poetry is found in Nostos, Unlost Journal, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Clamor 2021, Black Bough’s Christmas & Winter Edition, and in several anthologies. Cindy lives in Southern California with her husband and their children.
⚡ Gunnysack, cherita sequence by Cindy Bousquet Harris, a semi-finalist in MacQ’s Magician Ekphrastic Writing Challenge (Issue 3, May 2020)
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