Fallen From
- Fallen From
“If you run after me,” said the little bunny, “I will become a fish in a trout stream and I will swim away from you.”
—Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny
Did I fall did Iwhen you fell did I full lose my placefish in stream as stem in sternsound spinning? Yes I did am stilldoing fallen from falling from fellboth north and south still backand forwards front and eachtime I east reach west balancesome up ends me new odds new youto butt up against in my old gamble.Never mind I’m lost in all thisand just when I get the catchcatch what there is gotten wellby then you’ll be all and I’ll be gone. [End Page 86]
catherine wing is the author of two collections of poetry, Enter Invisible and Gin & Bleach. Her poems have been published in such journals as Poetry, the Nation, and Tin House. She teaches at Kent State University and with the NEOMFA, the nation’s only consortial program in creative writing.
