Katrina Kaye
I balance on rocks
surrounding bonfires,
feel the warm flares
reach for my face,
my laughter mixes with
crackling flames.
flames awaken
an animal
inside my body
and there are
nights and yellow
moons when I allow
it to roam
tonight,
I am wild spirit
the rabbit
in the moon makes
feral mouth water
and howl erupt
from gut
I am here
warm and alive
and ready to run
Katrina Kaye
I am a star,
collapsed,
receding into space.
I died
years before
Jupiter ever felt
my rays.
I crusted over,
a thousand times
destroyed.
But he is still
counting me as part
of his constellation.
I want to know
Jupiter as if he
craved my name.
As if I was
something more
than a flicker
of light,
echoed
in space.
Katrina Kaye
All the men
at the factory
bought her dinner
to congratulate
a job well done.
When she got home,
she promptly threw
it up and dressed
in the clothes he
left behind,
drinking mouthwash
like poison
and listening to the
heater drip. They will
never know all she
sacrificed for their
success.
“Success” is previously published in Rabbits for Luck (2016).
Chasing Rabbits 
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