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Josepha Gutelius

Josepha Gutelius has two poems online in SideReality. Her play Two Hands won a 2004 New Play Award from Theater Conspiracy and was produced lately in NYC.   

Mirror to Mirror

Leave your sleepy rivulets to trickle down my wrist,

teacher.  Put up a mirror for an answer

so I can ask the same thing twice

Seal shut last year’s envelopes, your lesson’s feral cabinet,

Say,  The mirror is facing the wall, so my secrets are safe

Don’t ask me,

“Dear little cobweb: why so brooding, mysterious, and quaking?”

Don’t say, I’ll seize this and this and this

Leave everything

like the sun, when nobody’s watching

melted down for sheer moonlight.

For Bob Arner

During fall’s last rehearsal

the wind spoke to earth in quarter inches, pacing each dropping leaf

to the plash of the water

losing itself in a zillion facets of ice  

The pond gives way to broken glass,

ghosts of objects, gray-bodied, crying out in a witchy voice

Hello bone of my foot

Hello kiss me starry sky

when ghost birds with baby cries

flap like stray scrap across the

brassy garden

We will someday assemble an art together

that is all of that

copyright © Josepha Gutelius