Contributions by Nanette Rayman Rivera
limbo
In the presence of stalking men I made diminuendo,
Grinding teeth in rain, and it came—
a wind swarm from New Jersey with its capricious cache.
Bent willows near the East River
butterfly runners ducking for cover.
I wonder why there’s no truck…
manhattan, kansas
I come to the window with nicotine curtains, fancy
seeing doppelganger-me seeing an archetier,
loaf of bow rosin, ginger wound scarlet over horse hair.
I tell you it shouldn’t end like this, not for
my solvent bowed lips, but because I imagined I’d
play…
frost flower
I notice it everywhere now.
Just yesterday, xylem sap in the leaves
more dovegray than pigeon,
drawn through cracks, freezing
through the pores
of yellow ironweed.
Outside a homeless shelter for couples,
winding like hair
…