~ Delta Poetry Review ~

Kristy Snedden

Conundrum

The crow scribbles long lists with the twig

along the black power lines. When

was the season we knew

our entwinement, lip on lip

in the dark of the big ship on the small lake

of decades we have swum through

sticky notes everywhere to Rome and Paris

Abaco crammed full of astonishments

or when you fainted and I beside you

the cold floor in Costa Rica and who did we have

but each other my body on yours and you

breathed me through panic, activating

the current that kept your heart ticking

so we would not lose a second like those black birds

that still bomb my window then sit in the trees.

Always the conundrum of connection and why

a crow is a crow is a crow with a twig.

Kristy Snedden is a trauma psychotherapist, poet, and artist who is widely published in various online and print journals and anthologies, most recently in Contemporary Verse 2 and storySouth. Among other honors, her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Kristy is the founding editor of Bone to Brain: The International Journal of Poetry, Prose, Art, and Healing. Kristy writes and creates art because of the fun and meaning it adds to her life. www.kristysnedden.com