you don’t remember the deer on the side of the highway.
its bottom half broken into the cement and its head
rising upward. both eyes blinking trying to see or trying
not to see. to place the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible
Odilon Redon writes of painting a vase of flowers. a specular
assembled without will.
Sara Lupita Olivares is the author of Migratory Sound (Arkansas), winner of the 2020 CantoMundo Poetry Prize. She currently lives in northern New Mexico.
