What makes you
complicated,
inscrutable dust
piled in the corner. 

Damned dream
slips like water
over rock. 

I won’t compromise
the light — 

afternoon sings
like a bird. 

Damned bird
won’t know
I’m gone. 

Promise collects
like rainwater
in the gutter, 

builds cobwebs
in the eaves. 

Damned sun
makes it shine
like gold.

Marisa Siegel holds an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, CA. Her essay "Inherited Anger" appears in the acclaimed anthology BURN IT DOWN (Seal Press, 2019) and her poetry chapbook FIXED STARS is out now from Burrow Press. Find her online at marisasiegel.com.

Daisy Craddock (b.1949, Memphis,TN) received a BA in Fine Arts from Rhodes College and an MFA in Painting from the University of Georgia. Her work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States. Recent one person shows include In Season at Carol Corey Fine Art, Kent CT, September 2022, Harvest at Front Room Gallery, NYC, with Garvey Simon Gallery, November 2020, and A View of One’s Own, August 2017 at John Davis Gallery in Hudson NY. An installation of Daisy’s work from the 1980’s was on view in the lobby of the Georgia Museum of Art from July 23 – October, 2018. Recent group shows include Landscape & Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY, December 2020 and Art on Paper 2019 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.