Divorce

By Dallas Raquel Klein

The raspberries are desperate
for a weeding. Sticky thistle vines
doing their work to choke
the flourish of fruit. I can’t see
sun through the havoc, and frenzied
bees shout their complaints
as I pull at the snarl.

Some are so thick I heave 
into the rip. I’m an animal as I claw–
a hurricane in a cluttered gulf–
destruction until miraculous floods in.
Light fills the empty spaces, as if
by higher calling, I hand and knee
my way further into fertile possibility. 

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Dallas Raquel Klein

Dallas Raquel Klein is a queer, Latin/x poet. She is from Texas and received her MFA in creative writing from Texas State University. She now lives on Whidbey Island. She works for the public library, grows food, works with fiber, and believes in community building and communing with the land. Individual poems have been published in The Banyan Review, Plant & Poetry Magazine and Pork Belly Press.