Crow, inspecting my lawn with your small family, domestic, industrious, it seems you have something important to say. Other birds may be more melodious singers, more graceful walkers, but few have that spark of cleverness in their eyes. Few are so sleek their feathers shine, few so wise they nod sagaciously as they […]
Sally Zakariya
Sally Zakariya’s poetry has appeared in some 100 print and online journals and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her most recent publication is Something Like a Life (Gyroscope Press). She is also the author of Muslim Wife, The Unknowable Mystery of Other People, Personal Astronomy, When You Escape, Insectomania, and Arithmetic and other verses, as well as the editor of a poetry anthology, Joys of the Table. Zakariya blogs at www.butdoesitrhyme.com.
The Ship Model
Granny took the waters at Berkeley Springs, slipping slowly into a pool of sulfurous stuff bubbling up beneath the West Virginia hills. A row of women—mostly old, mostly large—clung to the edge of the pool, held seemingly in stasis by earth’s vaporous exhalations. But what could we do in a hot pool all day, two […]