Sometimes I wish to waft gently around
and sometimes I feel like darting rapidly about
and sometimes I want to be found
and sometimes I need to stay lost
(The Heisenberg Game:
someone you love gets sent to the hospital
then to the nursing home
then back to the hospital—
find them)
You can’t always hide from yourself
even while
switching from wave to particle
and back again
as easily and swiftly
as a Super Hero
You can lead
me to water
but you’ll never know
how I got there
Iris Lee’s book of poems, Urban Bird Life, was published in 2010 by NYQ Books. She has had work published in, among other venues, Epiphany, Marsh Hawk Review, and Passager. She leads a writing workshop for theater professionals at The Actors Studio in New York City, and has studied the theater/poetry connection at HB Studio, also in New York City. After a career in human services, she writes and does pro-bono editing. She is a life-long Brooklynite.
