Friday, November 02, 2018

Playlist: 11 Weeks

Poem for the week -- "Playlist: 11 Weeks":

1. lush field of shadows, static
    hush and radial itch, primordial

2. goo of the sonogram's wand
    gliding across my belly

3. my daughter blooming
    into focus, feathered

4. and fluttering across the stormy
    screen, the way it rained

5. so hard one night in April
    driving home from the cafĂ© in Queens

6. where we’d eaten sweet tamales
    I thought we might drown

7. in the flooded streets
    but we didn’t and I want to say

8. that was the night she was conceived:
     husk and sugar,

9. an apartment filled with music,
    hiss of damp clothes

10. drying on the radiator,
      a prayer made with a record’s broken needle

11. to become beaming
      and undone.

-- Kendra DeColo