I collect the feathers of flightless birds
while you’re hypnotized by a wind turbine gently tumbling
We study the body language of trees
and are numbed by our complicity in their suffering
In our minds we hold hands
as we jump off a cliff
When we talk to each other
it sounds like snow
We heal
but we don’t know how
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 18, Issue 5.
Elizabeth Onusko is the author of Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor, which received the Bryant-Lisembee Book Prize and was published by Red Paint Hill in spring 2016. She is the editor of Foundry and assistant editor of inter|rupture.
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