Tamra's poem "Elevation Dream" has been published in The Closed Eye Open Issue III in March 2021.
Elevation Dream
for Poonam
when the fifth graders
rush ahead of us
I learn that we only
need tiptoe
upon the spiral stairs
for they’ll pedal us up
like elevator bicycles
riding to the tippy peak
of the nun’s tower
that anachronistic
turret
both in Brooklyn and Venice
beach which
opens to a panoramic rooftop
tarred in gummy bears
that can be licked for
the odd
vitamin fortification
far above
the siren song of strolling babes
lanced into the sky’s flesh
vast and pure
we may humbly request
a cosmic
primer
or simply
sightsee
through kaleidoscopic
peepers
someone asks
how we’ll show
mastery:
Breathing?
Poetry?
we are so high
that we forget
to wonder
about the nuns
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