'A woman made of words is milkweed, bound to rattle open, scatter, and be lost.'
~ Marisa de Los Santos (excerpted from Io's Gift, which was included in her poetry collection, From The Bones Out)
She tumbled from the sky that night
White washed and too familiar
Holding cotton candy dreams
In her hand
...
I left a poem on the side of the highway last night.
With every exhale, words, like litter, escaped me
To flee-float out and about and along,
...
To a claustrophobic, the confessional
was penance enough, she thought -
an upended coffin filled with rotting sins
and little more.
...
I may be Art
in the way that he was, she was
in the way that you,
most certainly, are –
...
“To be honest, ” she said as if
lying would be nothing new,
“I seriously thought about
not telling you.”
...