Miriam Sagan is the author of 30 books. Her awards include the Santa Fe Mayor’s award for Excellence in the Arts, the Poetry Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts, and a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa. "April Fool" is on Short Circuit #01, Short Édition's quarterly review.

you say "rabbit rabbit"— it's the first day of the month I was born in, and I kiss you as if you are the only one for me cherry blossoms— memory of an old temple; a tree on a crutch me on my cane tiny newborn grand-daughter— my daughter and I both sob remembering my mean mother who still would have been the one to send a vase of roses raked gravel— but when I think of my Japan I see mice scurrying by flooded rice fields and sniff the stink of the sea terrible news from every direction— I dip another chip in salsa. I can't see the future and for this moment don't care, as you are smiling at m

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