MISTAKING MIRRORS
The sky is so empty
like I’m told to be.
The problem is
I can’t sit still:
a child bored
by the beach.
And when I’m empty
I echo, and it hurts –
that’s something,
a thing:
one bird breaks
the whole sky.
Rebecca Farivar's poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Octopus, 6X6, Parcel, cold-drill, and elsewhere. Octopus Books will publish her first full-length collection of poems in 2011 and her chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press) is also due out this year. A California native, she holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California and currently lives in Bonn, Germany.
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RealPoetik
www.realpoetik.org
The sky is so empty
like I’m told to be.
The problem is
I can’t sit still:
a child bored
by the beach.
And when I’m empty
I echo, and it hurts –
that’s something,
a thing:
one bird breaks
the whole sky.
Rebecca Farivar's poems have been published in Denver Quarterly, Octopus, 6X6, Parcel, cold-drill, and elsewhere. Octopus Books will publish her first full-length collection of poems in 2011 and her chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press) is also due out this year. A California native, she holds an MFA in poetry from St. Mary's College of California and currently lives in Bonn, Germany.
--
RealPoetik
www.realpoetik.org
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