Issue 5:
Warm
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
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The Bathwater of Southern Afternoons
Lila walks the woodsy route to school
over the meadows and through the backwoods
of a dogbreathed Alabama early fall.
A nearly livable fall
save for the tepid sky
& held rainbreath.
Lila craves a real fall
head over heels
leaves match struck and burning
a tipped bowl of hard candy.
Such sweetness and heat
that she forgets sticky & lukewarm & slightly tipsy
but freefalls from such a height
exhilarated and nothing else.
Her words skipping over an echo lake
Each letter a stone,
Each stone a prayer.
A wonder we find each other
A sheer wonder.
~Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis
Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis has recently completed an MFA at the University of Alabama. Her poems have previously appeared in The Green Tricycle, Other Voices, Faultline and International Quarterly. Email.
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This page updated April 23, 2002.