Untenable
Here’s a puzzle
for you she says
and throws the
pieces in his face
They flutter
like confetti
take their time
to settle
half his face
a ringed finger
on a woman’s hand
something out of
focus in the background
She turns around
and leaves
righteous with
his imagined grief
He tries to
unimagine her being unbereaved
Poem
… there on the branch just out of reach
branches as other hands fingers splayed
swayed by the current under the surface of sky
and stretching as if you could touch
and by touching know and knowing say
the words like water like air a breath a reprise
under the surface of sky swayed by the current
fingers splayed as other hands reach
just out of touch there on the branch
stretch as if you could say and by saying
touch and touching know the current
to breathe the water the air like words …
