Connie A. Lopez-Hood
MONDAY MORNING NEWS
re : presentations
this is not a tit for tat where a woman in power means that she is
gods are to devils an asylum in a same space an aura is to a pair of horns
a same fall
a stone still mosses too, the hills in a distance lethargy green
and we are all re
presentations of each other
look how the aged sky chokes like purpling skin
like brittling straw hair
the world enabled by the very un alike metaphors
we point to we name
the dash inside my car stretches a hyphenate
leather bag a dry patch of farmer like a soot floor of m-
dash slash and burn
re presentations
a response to a call a phone and a headline is to
the laze of a patina lock a megaphone copper screech
a rust cell warbling bird
Connie A. Lopez-Hood is Editor & Co-Founder of Shuf Poetry and has also served as Editor for both the Pacific Review and Ghost Town Literary Journal. She spear-headed and edited the chapbook anthology, Blankets & Other Poems: Poetry for the People of Japan, in which all proceeds were donated to Red Cross Japan Relief. Her work has appeared in The Newer York, Apercus, Gaga Stigmata, Our Stories Literary Journal, Polari Journal, Lingerpost, Subliminal Interiors, and others. She holds an MFA in Poetry and is obsessed with collaborative projects. She lives, writes, and breathes poetry in the Southern California mountains with her poet-spouse, two artsy step-kids, and three wily rescue dogs.