Kai

Your voice quivering
and full of unfounded doubt
splits the air too quietly
for the force of human
that lives inside your skin

Inferno
Tsunami
Tornado
Earthquake

They have
nothing
on you.

Frank Stella

Moultonboro II, 1974

We are fitted together
irregular in our natural
being, yet we find
those spaces allowed,
those crevices of wonder
that make us whole
despite the unevenness
of our edges. We blend
lives, our seams bleeding.

Aleathia Drehmer was the one-time editor of Durable Goods and In Between Altered States, co-editor of Full of Crow and Zygote in My Coffee, and art editor of Regardless of Authority. Her work has been published in print and online for poetry, fiction, and photography. https://theforkedroad-ajourney.blogspot.com/.