Tammy Bendetti
Blessing
Cover Art: Walker Evans, Gravestone, Louisiana, Gelatin silver print, 1935,
Blessing
for Minadora
I love waking to good omens.
This morning smells like perfume & gasoline, flammable. At the window, I think of you and your interminable patience, and I wonder if it burns. I told the wind of your hills full of flint and your kindling konza. Perhaps you will leave longsuffering in ash and go out into a new place, demanding shelter. |
Tammy Bendetti yearns for the ocean from landlocked Colorado, where at least the pine forests sound like surf. She and her partner, Corey, have two small girls and live in a crooked blue-and-white house. You can find some of Tammy's recent work published in Bitopia, Alyss, and Virga.
past, Amy Baskin next, Sarah Bigham