Lightsey Darst
Storm-eyed in algebra class.
On the bus swinging by crosses hung with plastic morning glory.
Stadium lights thick moths & so little sound.
The past’s option {you could have}……shrinking
…………….into a mineshaft’s no / air stilling, smearing
that cobalt poison over,
…………………….under the eye that saw this
…………trivia: shadowbox scenes of her
first sex, mother’s kitchen, the bright mobile
…………of angelfish swinging over her tiny bed at night and when she first bled
the shark turning his hammerhead
slow in the water below her
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Lightsey Darst, originally from Tallahassee, Florida, is a poet, dance writer, and adjunct instructor at various Twin Cities colleges. She has been awarded a 2007 NEA Fellowship and two Minnesota State Arts Board grants. Her manuscript Find the Girl will be published by Coffee House Press in April 2010, and her chapbook Ginnungagap is available from Red Dragonfly Press. You can find her dance writing in Mpls-St Paul Magazine and on mnartists.org. She also hosts the writing salon “The Works” at the Bryant-Lake Bowl.
