Real Life
Real Life
by Kim Addonizio
Here we walk without wallets,
no keys to anything. The gates
swing open, we move among the
cows, hot hills, at night through wet
foxtails; the kitchen light hums
winged things circle it. Yesterday
you slit a snakeskin and found
the diamond pattern interrupted,
in the center, by a heart:
covered it in salt, tacked
it to a board for drying out.
This evening it’s soft, the scale
you peel for me a tiny
translucency in my hand.
Kim Addonzio has a unique language and form of stylistic
mastery in “Real Life”.