Issue 11.1 Fall 2015

11.1 cover image

 

About the Author

Katarina Boudreaux is a writer, musician, composer, tango dancer, and teacher -- a shaper of word, sound, and mind. She returned to New Orleans after circuitous journeying.  New work is forthcoming in HARK and YAY!LA.  www.katarinaboudreaux.com

 

Platform Transubstantiation

 

Katarina Boudreaux

 

Not strong enough
at 547 days

 

--seconds clinging
to the long tips
of her hair --

 

for proxy or words
that bridge across
languages of ocean,
rock, his last image
of her in profile, her
nose down turned

 

--he remembers how
her mouth curled like
a cat’s, how he
never minded being
the mouse --

 

he shuts his eyes
like scissors to avoid
witnessing the tragic
moment of transportation

 

--she had told him
to wait for a surprise--

 

and though he knows
his eyes are still blue
beneath the lids,
somehow he feels
they should be colorless.

 

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