
Mobile Art Saturday Poetry – Lottery by Kristin Robertson
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled Lottery by Kristin Robertson. She is the author of Surgical Wing (Alice James Books, 2017). She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Tennessee Wesleyan University.
I have matched mobile art by soniabridekirk entitled ‘The Solitary Ranunculus’. To view her feed, go here.
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via Poets.org
Lottery by Kristin Robertson
A chance so close to zero, zero’s a baby
pool shoved against your screen door
thirty-six thousand feet below this airplane
where a preschooler chokes on a pretzel.
Every passenger stands, clutching
their necks as the mother scrapes her finger
down the girl’s throat. “You’re living in despair,”
the psychiatrist said back home. Long after
she forgets she once stopped breathing,
the girl asks if a plane ever falls from the sky.
“Sometimes it does,” you say. “Sometimes it does.”
One in eleven million. And when she says,
“They’ll catch us, the yellow trees,” you see
the start of a ginkgo tunnel: You haven’t lost
a baby. You go to work, sell tires, rinse
your feet at dusk in your makeshift plastic
pond, where soon all the suns will float:
the bright petals you won’t win, but find.
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