A Kitten for Amelie and Luc
Brought home one rain-slick day so your sleight hands
would have someone else to touch,
he is hoisted like a sack over your shoulders,
pushed about your middle like a fanny pack,
and
Mary Romero
Mary Romero’s work has appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Christianity and Literature, and Crux, among others; and her chapbook Philoxenia was the recipient of the Luci Shaw prize. Mary lives in Ch
Disregarding the Signs
Hungry after school, we bought
a jumbo pretzel from the bakery
one with crystalline salt
like tiny mountain caps
perched on its curves,
then wandered into the sculpture garden
across the way where
An Air in a Minor Key
We reach for what lies always out of reach,
and so we touch each other along the way.
The opacity of you that cannot be gotten through
returns me to the senses of