I am From

I am From

I am from

Snow.

From a wing

And a prayer.

My white fur muff and

brown velvet dress.

Her wood paneled station

wagon, clogs,

cuffs, violin bows, alligator case,

A smooth round table anchor

piled newspapers recipes notes

soap blue fish tomatoes

Red cellophane wrapped boxes

taxi cabs, skylight and clarinet notes

Blind date a walk diagonally

across the sun drenched room

Abacus bent stick crooked

wood.

His sailboat, shoe size, factory, wood smells

& leather too,

Carnegie Hall and Yiddish.

A trampolined afternoon

re-member-ied on super 8 film.

I am from sand stripes

and waves. A plinth a spline and a scupper drain.

Beth Krumholz

Winter 2014