by Kerfe Roig
burying hieronymus
you told me, you’re over-
feeding him; so i stopped
overfeeding him; you told me,
you run away from
everything; so i ran
& ran; once in mid-february
you told me, let’s get
a beta fish; so we got one,
and he swam the current
across our threshold
to the garden out front
Diandra Williams is a writer and musician based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work has appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Voicemail Poems, and Negation Magazine. When she isn’t writing poetry, she writes for and performs in her band DAMES alongside her partner Nancy.
A resident of New York City, Kerfe Roig enjoys transforming words and images into something new. Her poetry and art have been featured online by Silver Birch Press, The song is…, Pure Haiku, Visual Verse, and The Ekphrastic Review and published in Ella@100, Incandescent Mind, the Raw Art Review , The Anthropocene Hymnal: Songs of a self-defining era and several nature inspired anthologies. Follow her explorations on her blogs, https://methodtwomadness.wordpress.com/ (which she does with her friend Nina), and https://kblog.blog/, and see more of her work on her website http://kerferoig.com/.