every year
we dive down to bring her up
Mary
head blue covered
doved hands
water sheets down
marbled cloth
(who puts her back each time)
the koan about
vessels of water
one with holes
one turned down
one upright
but we keep forgetting
which we should be
Kathleen Mitchell-Askar lives, works, and writes in Sacramento. Her work has recently appeared in DIAGRAM and SWWIM Every Day.