John Levy and Shloka Shankar

Curiouser

I sleep well and dream a lot. I suppose you would like more details about my life now. Do I prefer the spoon or the fork if the item of food could be delivered to my mouth by either utensil? Am I fond of brightly colored shoelaces or do I like bland white ones or mournful black ones? When I gaze at cumulus clouds, do I see more animal shapes than human faces? When I think of the three pigs and their three houses, do I imagine that the pig in the straw house had many dinners in it before the wolf huffed and puffed and blew it down and do I feel certain that the wolf had loving feelings about his mother as he approached the straw house and decided upon the exact wording of his bellowed threat?

dream of mournful faces in straw feelings

cumulus clouds I imagine mother as threat

 my life now bland white and certain

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About the Authors

John Levy lives in Tucson. He is married to the painter Leslie Buchanan. His most recent book of poems is 54 poems: selected & new (Shearsman Books, 2023). 

An editor and visual artist from Bangalore, India, Shloka Shankar is a Best of the Net nominee and widely published haiku poet. She is the author of the haiku collections The Field of Why and within our somehows, co-author of the haiga anthology living in the pause, and founding editor of Sonic Boom and its imprint, Yavanika Press.

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