Sharon Suzuki-Martinez
Issue No. 9 • April 2013
1.
One day
I gave myself a gift certificate
because who knows what I want?
One night
without thinking
I traded it for one hundred bridges.
2.
We turn the house upside-down
in search of our passports.
A century passes
before we find them in the pages
of our children.
3.
Too many bridges to cross.
Paths like rotting smiles, rat-kissed
tatters swinging loose
in the maw of some river god.
4.
It has always been this way--only
your voice carries me to the other side.