Lake at Dusk
for GMH
He said it shone
like shook foil.
It was that but
add gas raining
then light a match,
or plug it in.
It was as if you
threw live coils
beneath, a sparking
roil the kayaks
sliced through
to reach the draping shore.
Crustacean
Like pinball flippers or the bar
in a coin pusher game, red
legs scuttle to the rock’s edge
where my foot is dangling.
A set of blue claws emerge,
tentative from a crevice,
and the yabby throttles out
then throws itself in reverse.
It’s feeding time at Slip 36.
A lake lobster uses his own
dark back as a slide, feelers
screening the deeper water.
Little fish flicker beside
a dozen other species playing
hide and seek, who use
the stones as their own runway.
I watch until a muddy creeper
sneaks under my knee. After
dinner, we return to see the dark
has disappeared them back beneath.
Chase
As the lightning
jagged across
the sky she
grabbed a bolt
and stuffed it
down her throat.
Sandra Marchetti is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, Aisle 228 from Stephen F. Austin State University Press and Confluence from Sundress Publications (2015). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Sandra’s poetry appears widely in Poet Lore, Blackbird, Subtropics, Ecotone, Southwest Review, and elsewhere. Her essays can be found at The Rumpus, Whiskey Island, Mid-American Review, Barrelhouse, and other venues. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry from George Mason University and serves as the Assistant Manager of Academic Support at Harper College in the Chicagoland area.
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