Lemon Leg Dances Among Eager Circus Afternoons
by Kim Secunda ( Cover art by the author)
We hunker here
We hunker
here
cellar bugs
armadillos
under our
desks
scabby
knees up elbows out
arms press
ears to amplify
high
whistle churn swish
of blood
running
fast in my
veins
like
blackbirds’ wings
clock so
Loud
sweet sour
school smells
metal
flavor blood taste
surprised
how very quiet it gets
waiting
ducked and
covered
I am brave
feeling how
alive to die like this
It will be
like a flashcube
then there will be fallout
That snake in my belly drinks
that snake in my belly drinks
my soft
sugars slurpping
the bowl I
clasp churns mossy shadows
ripe juices
surge overlap random ingredients
suck tides
feed flames lick caramelizing
crusty
pudding
glisteny
blackstrap spills
strange
wines travel everywhichway
mapping
subterranean caves
that snake
in my belly drinks bright medicine