Ilari Pass
Air, Interrupted
My son practices somersaults on the lawn.
Beneath our feet the yellow stars’ glimmer
lights the way. The sun still shines, though
it glistens just out of reach. For those damn dandelions
unfurl; its hunger is another color.
Fists give birth to cells
Red-spiked, protruding polka-dots
Rose out of them as if there were candles
That is surprising us
They illuminate nothing
to an invitation. I watched him
expel from one strut to the next, cartwheeling
ungainly to crump on the earth. His tired
ears fell off at the sound of my voice
and we picked them up because our hands
were full of a thousand poems
that neither one of us knew how to read.
Beneath our feet the yellow stars’ glimmer
lights the way. The sun still shines, though
it glistens just out of reach. For those damn dandelions
unfurl; its hunger is another color.
Fists give birth to cells
Red-spiked, protruding polka-dots
Rose out of them as if there were candles
That is surprising us
They illuminate nothing
to an invitation. I watched him
expel from one strut to the next, cartwheeling
ungainly to crump on the earth. His tired
ears fell off at the sound of my voice
and we picked them up because our hands
were full of a thousand poems
that neither one of us knew how to read.
Biography
Ilari Pass holds a BA in English from Guilford College of Greensboro, NC, and an MA in English, with a concentration in literature, from Gardner-Webb University of Boiling Springs, NC. She was a finalist for the 2019 Ron Rash Award in Poetry in Broad River Review; an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Spring Issue of JuxtaProse Magazine; the 2020 Cream City Review Summer Poetry Contest finalist, and a Runner-up for the 2020 Doug Draime Poetry Award in The Raw Art Review. Her work appears or forthcoming in Brown Sugar Literary Magazine, Red Fez, Unlikely Stories, Triggerfish Critical Review, Rigorous Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, Drunk Monkeys, The Daily Drunk, Free State Review, Common Ground Review, and others. Find her on these social media handles:
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