Ana Reisens
Someday I Will
live in the wind.
Someday I will have feathers
for hands and rivers for skin.
(this yearning!)
Someday I will catch
the glint upon the sand,
the petal in my hand
(my breath).
Someday I will land.
Someday it will all
be different. We will love
without conditions, will ache
in ways that are only ever
luminous, will carry sparrows
in our eyes and blossoms
on our lips
(they will taste like
teacups, like sweetgrass
beneath the rain, like everything
we have ever missed).
Meanwhile the wind.
Meanwhile the mountains
and pinesap and thistles
(this bliss).
Ana Reisens is a poet and writer. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and her work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Bombay Literary Magazine, and The Ex-Puritan, among other places.