A Surprise
Cari Oleskewicz
Finally it is one of those weeks that agrees to slow down. Pages stop turning themselves and I can wait for a moment listening for rain under tires and I can look really hard at the leaves moving from green to yellow, apple-colored leaves out a window. I can spend time making hotel reservations, a room on a canal – not the Grand Canal – but a canal. I can inspect myself in the bathroom mirror. My neck is a surprise. I am not pretty but I am my mother’s neck and the way she held her features like pieces.
Cari Oleskewicz is a poet and writer living in Tampa and Tuscany. Her work has been published in a number of print and online journals, including The Found Poetry Review, JAB Magazine, Blotterature Literary Journal, Imitation Fruit Literary Journal, Five 2 One Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine and Bryant Literary Review. She is at work on a novel-in-verse and putting together a collection of essays.