By Kyla Houbolt
‘Lightning results from the tension between what is and what should be’ – Jarod K. Anderson
argue to bring
more lightning
for all of the world
and heaven too is stolen, stolen
the opposite of scissors is salt is
needle and thread is
bird stitching wing to cloud — see it? —
golden, golden
the opposite of smooth
is sand rubbed along itself all the way down
to dust, this shiny crumb
of lighghghghgh gh gh t
ning is molten, molten
this opposite opposite
particle wave disappear
disappear
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Kyla Houbolt is nearing 70 years of age and has published exactly three poems over the span of her life, all in venues which are now extinct. She has preferred to read to interested listeners most often. And, everything changes. Kyla lives and writes in Wilmington, NC, USA. Hurricane country. Hide from the wind but run from the water.
Silk + Smoke 