BIO:
Pat Reed is the author of Kismet (O Books) and a nonfiction memoir titled, We Want to See Your Tears Falling Down. She lives in Oakland, California.

EXCERPT:

…in limbs
that swim
around the
lighting-
tangled
red

striped
wriggle
vanishes in a
struggle with the
rippling glare

a bug
glues a room
of rock

in rushing
water…