Night

Sara Lupita Olivares

 

before loss there is habit     the moon implied beyond a fence

outside a goat crosses the pavement
hooves circle in the snow     a broken jaw

reassembled     I begin to make a house despite the highway

what song into the child’s ear subtracts an animal’s
forage end to end      the wrong leaves have been

eaten     each absent correspondence bleats
you misinterpret the animal’s mouth

as objectivity
each unparticular way of seeing

 
 

Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of the chapbook “Field Things” (dancing girl press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Salt Hill Journal, Denver Quarterly, Apogee, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD student at Western Michigan University.