Gestures
Heather Tone
5 1/4" x 7"
$8
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As for me, I own a few
things, one of which is a gathering of muscles. I put my left foot down. I put my right.
I gestured to the cave, and it said it housed a goddess, or something close to it.
I gestured to the goddess. Her voice sounded like dried leaves, flaked paint. It blew off the mountain.
I had been seeking advice. I didn’t know what to do.
“You know how many Things I/ could do without. Things I could/ do.”
Some courtships are conducted largely through letters.
I gestured to the cave, and it said it housed a goddess, or something close to it.
I gestured to the goddess. Her voice sounded like dried leaves, flaked paint. It blew off the mountain.
I had been seeking advice. I didn’t know what to do.
“You know how many Things I/ could do without. Things I could/ do.”
Some courtships are conducted largely through letters.
Heather Tone received her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Fence, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Florida.
