her cancer surgery looms and I walk worried in the park more rare than leap year here, a double rainbow suddenly appears oh, I’m going to be fine—just fine, Mom says—two rainbows twice the hope then when my nest goes empty a hummingbird swoops down inches from my face, holds eye contact as if he […]
Mary Oishi
Mary Oishi, Albuquerque Poet Laureate (2020-2022), is the author of Sidewalk Cruiseship (UNM Press, 2024) and Spirit Birds They Told Me (West End Press, 2011), co-author of Rock Paper Scissors (Swimming with Elephants, 2018), and Editor of 2023 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-winning One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and journals throughout the U.S. and internationally, including in translation.