'Votives'
Ceramic
Juniper Yun Kruser
2013

Arizona

you wear sadness

like a crown of 

calla lilies and bird skulls.

your desert moon face 

cookie-cutter 

in milky way memories.

you know,

the sun's bright here

and the birds sing

and you think of 

dead mothers and how

someone poured acid

on a little girl's face.

the grand canyon

sentences, too deep

and too wide.

incomprehensible

Psyche at the cliff,

loving nowhere.