There are other cats around, many cats,some six-toed, but it’s Henrywho sits with me in the dark gardenon the steps to my nun-like room. Batsand night birds abound. I’ve left my deadand missing in Manhattan’s bad weather.All day today I walked and ate and criedand shopped. I’m leaving tomorrow;the plane will be cold and the […]
Author: Iris Lee
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.
HEISENBERG UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE
Sometimes I wish to waft gently aroundand sometimes I feel like darting rapidly aboutand sometimes I want to be foundand 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 yourselfeven whileswitching from wave to […]