Michele Stepto
Scenes from the Poem and the News 3
The poem enters carrying
a basket of heads
The audience cranes
its neck to see
Heads the poem says
and tips the basket
so the audience can see
better and heads
begin to bounce
off the edge of the stage
and into the seats
like big balls
In the audience some
giggle in their palms
some have brains
and blood on their clothes
unspotted the poem
sets the basket down
and makes its exit
stage left
Michele Stepto (with her son Gabriel) is the translator of Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (Beacon Press, 1997), from the original Spanish by Catalina de Erauso. Her work has appeared in Verse-Virtual, Ekphrastic Review, NatureWriting, Mirror Dance, Lacuna Journal, and One Sentence Poems.
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