If I describe in detail the girl who flew away with the cranes, do you think we could find her?
Rie Muñoz, Crane Legend
I saw her first at a garage sale
in some basement in some house we could never afford.
When I picked her up the woman browsing beside me
named the artist. But I wasn’t paying attention.
I didn’t expect this to be a memory.
What I know: The ink was silvery bright
and there was a wide white border and a blue
sky and a plump girl with a sly smile and a crooked
headscarf and a flock of birds
all floating up, up, up, into the clouds
and the cranes swirled
around the girl almost in the shape of a heart.… Read the rest