small black bug zoomed into my dining room I recoiled, my first impulse to stomp him— as if he heard my thoughts, he froze so still there he stayed, bracing for my sole of doom as I looked down, I thought of my young friend […]
Mary Oishi
Mary Oishi, Albuquerque Poet Laureate (2020-2022), is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Sidewalk Cruiseship (University of New Mexico Press, 2024).She is also the Editor of the 2023 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-winning One Albuquerque, One Hundred Poets:Poets in the Libraries Anthology. Her work appears in anthologies and journals in 15 countries and 7 languages. She is currently working on a bilingual poetry collection and a memoir.
Sky Omens
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 […]