Jami Kali
Three Poems
Elephant Wish
I take boys to stormy canals
to swallow the rain in their blood.Shadows spread beneath our forest
and foul chants rip at that yellowed sun likeSweet sweet symphony fingers crushing through time.
A drooling hound must worship a drunk friend like you.
Hot Days
She walks to her faucet and lights a match.
A flame shoots out like a blowtorch.
The hair on her right arm singed
she says, “Well? What do
you suggest?”
I shrug.
Water
Tribulations
had round hearts
don’t drip in
to bigger bodies.Tributary
is a flow word
for that.Like dis
tributaries
in dis
guisewe worry
while we fake.
