Saturday, August 15, 2009

HONORABLE MENTION: Guantánamo Bay - Dan Larkins

My husband:
Born in captivity
Released and caught in the wild, now
The fish fat you scrape into your scalp
The fin on your plate in Sapporo.

Our child:
Parthenogenesis then Royal Caribbean
Broke off his front teeth
But he grew them back.

Myself:
Just a hammerhead who
Sometimes at night stares
Breathless at the moon’s lights
Above spears and sirens and screaming.

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