Kathleen Hellen
days, she volunteers
in my sack a tub of golden hummus. sunflowers and seeds. he’s dressed in tie-dye. jeans. a kerchief like a bandit’s tied around his neck. “how good to be drug free!”
the sky so blue
flies ransack the marigolds
About the Author
Kathleen Hellen is the author of three collections, including The Only Country Was the Color of My Skin (Saddle Road Press) and two poetry chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Asia Literary Review, Frogpond, Kartika Review, The Margins, Poetry International, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Valley Voices, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.