Chitra Ganesh, How to Assemble a Flying Car (detail), 2018, linocut on tan BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist & Durham Press.
The Rain Has Made Me Late To Work
this morningwashed so that fragrances _ rise while
_youinconceivable sleep _curled up wise bud in my
bed and Iincredulous pedal the hill to this day _my
workfacing dusty stacks with a secret small music
called _maybeyour facecould unfurl for melater
but nowis the time when happiestI should be writing
poemsand indeed _ they stir aroundin here it may be the
time having come to themor they to her the ideas
arriving to someoneit has justoccurred to meI grab
a yellow _padhide in the _shelvesinsteadsweet letter.
J.S.A. Lowe is a freelance writer and editor living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Denver Quarterly, AGNI, The Paris Review, and Salamander. (updated 2000)