Mary Kathyrn Jablonski
Octopus Bride She has the eight arms of a Hindu goddess dancing. Views this love with eyes unblinking, worries over her third heart, having already broken two irreparably. She maintains a stronghold while clinging fast to him with limbs to spare. Lets her body do the thinking, tastes him with a thousand mouths. He swallows the songs of her ink, finds her in camouflage. She becomes him. Managing in a cold world, their dreams flee through the smallest openings. With beaks like birds they fly a liquid sky away from one another. He escapes like Houdini Upside Down. Grief, the boneless bag that pulls her.Artist/poet Mary Kathryn Jablonski is most recently author of "Sugar Maker Moon," from Dos Madres Press. Her poems and collaborative video/poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, exhibitions, screenings and film festivals, including Atticus Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Film Live (UK), Poetry Ireland Review (IRE), Quarterly West, and Salmagundi, among others. She was recently awarded a NYSCA Individual Artist's Grant in Poetry to complete a video/poem "chapbook” and is Senior Editor in Visual Art at Tupelo Quarterly.