Two Micro Poems

by Jacklyn Janeksela

immaculate conception my vagina

with only two fish : we can become goddesses ourselves
crowned crows peck eyes for virgin sunrise & suicides

they slip between our fingers : sage bush & rabbit’s foot
howled we prance armed with fistfuls of bloodroses

bundled we sneak into podded crevices : bake under noon sun
robin breasts confess that love looks like this

mud-tipped fingers : searching a riverbed over and under
helixed we dance a dance invented by smoke & cloak

with two fish we transition : the twinned of double vaginas
tuck a poppy cupped hand between thighs & branches

how to be born without knowing it

we dream like witches like women like men : vibrate the knife
that cuts another limb –we are working towards no-name entities
& bodies unseen

spindle the spool the spooning of us
sleeping giant: awakes, scratches the corner
of the third eye –laughing, we share air kisses

:plumed you puff: plumed i fall:

we dream like fruits, sleeping : pods ready to tree-jump
if we were any braver, we could fly
& reach home-like home

the mere mentioning of owls : labor pains : reincarnation
riddle the rattle of a baby we’re having
its soft like leaves, muddy-faced it floats & talks in tune

we dream like mothers like sisters like lovers/top the drop
that fills a cup –we are emptying a stain the color of a star