Feather Leaf

naked winter branch



one white feather forged to it.



-lora, feb. 2009.

How to Get Off the Mountain?

How to get off the mountain?

discs of slate
slipped, cut, cursed on the way down
wanna ride one down instead

and sit on it

and shove

and the whole mountain falls down
all around me
and behind me
and me with it

smell in the air
like lit gunpowder

I do it again
next time I want to come down.

-lora bennett, 2009-