Previous Issue: Fall/Winter 2009

In a Break Between Bursts of Laughter  
Rebecca Kinzie Bastian

Lift your arms gossamer girl and let me see your teeth.
They have words stuck in them like poppy seeds.
I am in love with every dark spot.

I can hear your toes slip in your rain filled shoes.
Take them off and I’ll drink from your slipper.
This is not a love poem. It is a bird, dizzy,

besotted on cherries and yellow bruised plums.
I am just its cage, the wire it beats against
on windy days like this.

 

Rebecca Kinzie Bastian works as an editor and copywriter and leads a weekly workshop in Williamsport, PA. She was a 2007 Margaret Bridgman Scholar in Poetry for the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and was a finalist in the Kalliope/Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Contest. Her recent work appears in Rhino, Coal Hill Review, and Pax Americana.