Lenore Weiss

Iceland territory where everything is frozen in flows across the mountaintops. Sitting on a stack of encyclopedias and gazing at my pocket watch, not caring about time, just waiting for

I was born in the same year the state of Israel was formed but that’s not exactly the right word— formed is something joined and shaped through stages of development

I might have talked about chicken bones at my first state of the city address and riled the whole city. But I’m not a Donald Trump stirring up the minions

We live in a bafflement of words like smoke from a fire making eyes tear and throats scratchy only we don’t realize we are being talked to death by dyslexic vapors fucking

I talk to my plants. I also talk to my cats while scratching their ears and discussing the weather or what’s for dinner. But plant-to-person communication involves a different kind