Seren Fargo
Crossing Boundaries
The dispatcher asks again if I’m sure there is no one in the house. I hesitate, but say that I am. Then she adds that I should wait outside for the officer, if I don’t feel safe inside. I tell her that if there is still someone in the house, it is he or she that isn’t safe.
the tension in my fists something left over from childhood
An officer arrives, looks around the house, asks questions, answers mine, and fills out an inventory of the things I can recall are missing. He tells me that jewelry is rarely recovered. He does not dust for fingerprints. The police department does not have the resources, he says. Later, as I return the contents of my dresser drawers, and inventory in my head the jewelry that was taken, my thoughts become visceral, sinking into my own violence.
forecast: clear night a cloud steals the moon
Seren Fargo began writing Japanese-form poetry in 2009. Shortly thereafter, she founded the Bellingham Haiku Group. Her work has won awards and been widely published in several countries. Once a wildlife biologist, Seren particularly enjoys incorporating her past and present experiences from the natural world into her poetry.