SoMa Literary Review - The Movement of Turtles

The Movement of Turtles

By Evelyn Posamentier

you left
a doll's limb on the coffee table.
then you flew away like a bird
to a tropical island in the sea.
your kingdom calls me, michelle.

what did you think
when you opened your pack & unfolded
the doll, winging away to what was
out of your control.
a leg was gone.

before you came to visit me
i checked the weather on yahoo
& noted the sunny pictures smirking on the internet
a square with a yellow sun
on the day we would walk through the haight.

in golden gate park
i tricked you into a snapshot with turtles
in front of the museum.
together we will move into
the next one thousand years.

Evelyn Posamentier lives and writes in San Francisco, and will continue doing so until the cost of living here drives her out.