Bio:
Dallas Raquel Klein is a Chicana poet living in central Texas. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University and works for the Austin nonprofit Free Minds, a program of The Clemente Course in the Humanities. Her work can be found in Angles and is forthcoming in Ice Colony.
Stockholm Memory Syndrome
Iridescent window in the sea,
spider web pressure cracks
like a disco ball in molasses.
Deep blue view—
fishbowl dreams—
aquarium vision—
Seaweed slaps glass
submarine rivers
bend quick,
whip, bite like
hi-hat.
After long enough,
there’s little difference between the moon and the lure
light of an angler fish.
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