"Goldfish," "X-Ray," and "Bedfast"

Goldfish

Closest thing
you’ll ever get
to luck’s
a ping pong ball
landing
in your cup.

 


 

X-Ray

Is that
a tree
or a
mushroom
cloud
in that
picture?

 


 

Bedfast

All this
talk
of lying
and integrity—
there’s no
saving
my own
skin.

 

 

Randi Ward

Randi Ward is a poet, translator, lyricist, and photographer from Belleville, West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and is a recipient of the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Prize. MadHat Press published Ward’s second full-length poetry collection, Whipstitches, in 2016. Her work has also been featured on Folk Radio UK, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. For more information, visit randiward.com/about.

 

Edited for Unlikely by Jonathan Penton, Editor-in-Chief
Last revised on Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 22:46