girl in a garden
I want to sluice
through satin
ribbons of sunlight
I want to race beneath
the jointed stilts, the stares
of sunflowers
I want to eat black soil
and yellow starbursts
like cake
Danielle McMahon‘s work has recently appeared in Literary Mama, The F-Word Magazine, and Shiuli. She is the editor of a newly minted literary journal called the engine(idling.