Gestures

from "Gestures"


As for me, I own a few things, one of which is a gathering of muscles. I put my left foot down. I put my right.

I gestured to the cave, and it said it housed a goddess, or something close to it.

I gestured to the goddess. Her voice sounded like dried leaves, flaked paint. It blew off the mountain.

I had been seeking advice. I didn’t know what to do.

“You know how many Things I/ could do without. Things I could/ do.”

Some courtships are conducted largely through letters.


--The Catenary Press