Piper Rasmussen
Izumo no Okuni
Kintsugi moss on the thick granite feet
holding up the bridge. The statue of an
actress holds up her fans and grins,
arced with Tesla bursts of foliage,
a flower arrangement in the
Ikebana style. Fresh burn of radish.
The wind and the view of her
are the same, blowing through
my old cracks. They sing.
Bio
Piper Rasmussen (she/her) lives and works from Manhattan with her husband and cats. Her plays have been performed in Ohio, Oregon, and New York. Her poems have appeared in SplashLand Magazine, Kyoto Journal, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and others. piperrasmussen.com