Cindy Bousquet Harris is a poet and a licensed marriage and family
therapist. Her poetry has appeared online and in print journals
including The San Diego Poetry Annual, In the Mist, and Spectrum
Magazine. Born and raised in the Midwest, she now lives in southern
California with her husband and their children. <cmbharris@netzero.net
Flamingos of Gruissan
~Cindy Bousquet Harris
Serengeti Tangent
Forgive this Serengeti tangent,
crackered, bruised,
forging through the bush,
infinity nestled in granola bars
and all the bother
wrapped in tissue, old magazines
and batteries that might
still work;
hordes of wildebeest migrate
through my closet,
snorting, stomping,
endanger the delicate balance
of well-hidden gifts,
crowd the banks, precarious,
risk the crocodile,
to quench their thirst.
(February, 2012)
Feather toes of winter
 |
| Flamingos |
laced around them as they slept les flamants roses
the pink and curve
of them cold-wrapped
in darkness, too trussed-up
with dream snares to notice
water start to growl,
to squeeze and breathe
frost tentacles,
silent, soft convulsions
gelled the haven
to their feet;
those that woke,
too weak
to wrest away from ice grip;
those that didn’t,
stiff, encased
in frozen wing-shawls,
stencils on the lake.
~Cindy Bousquet Harris
