DECATUR
Goodbye gulf oil spill, tornado alarms and hurricanes, the fear of being blown apart at any second. Derricks sip from the grass.
Bayou Catfish or Jose's
Mexican Food and Cantina? Cows are thicker in Texas, too,
but we will not dwell.
Egrets team ahead of the storm in groups of five, yet people are solitary. As we westernize, and marsh tree lines
dissipate to pine, juniper pocks the desert hills, remember, every orange barrel is weighted down with sand.
NEEDLEFISH
The waves spread like bed sheets over the bay. We were pilgrims then, staked our prize
with a flagpole in the sand that blew over in the breeze,
and I woke to find the beach rearranged its shoreline.
Yes, that's the problem with wild beaches, you said.
Miranda Merklein lives and works in Santa Fe, NM, where she also publishes Journal of Truth and Consequence, a magazine for the arts. Her work has appeared in Oxford American Magazine, Spoon River Poetry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, and others. She has a PhD in English from University of Southern Mississippi and an MA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College.
You combed the grit from my hair, and I taped your ribbon words to my waist.
The waves spread, I plunged in, swam past Antarctic sinkholes
hiding deep in tropical swells. Only fire coral survived your reef, not my skin,
but I didn’t listen. The waves spread and, barely visible I became
an iridescence of self, scattering in a thousand new directions. Miranda Merklein
ORIGIN I commend the bird who,
having the fortitude to bear the first feather, causes the paleontologist to curl around his question by the fire, who does not listen to the critics or pond when they burp and bicker,
and if the turkey is our common ancestor, the dinosaurs stretch and rise after a long, frozen winter to herald the small-brained ocean, a yellow butterfly must follow the cracks, this fossil caste, on the first warm day, fly!
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