kite slices
paper air
teeth sink in sand, city
sinks in recycled
tidal waves
broken melody
falls from branches
we totaled our meadows, our
leash-less forests
ladder me
into a
collapsing star
make the sails current mourning,
the trash island
you can’t dream away
Jamie O’Connell currently lives in the Bay Area, where she received her MFA in Writing from California College of the Arts. Her poetry can be found in Menacing Hedge, Troop Zine, Newfound, and Forth Magazine, and her multimedia work has been exhibited in College Avenue Galleries in Oakland. She spends most of her time with her majestic zebra-striped dog/direwolf, Daisy. Visit her site here: http://www.jamieoco.com
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