Catalina Videla

☐Shimmering lips.
 
☐Sun perch plucked from Muskrat Lake, bare skin on the wet dock, running
hands through warm water, ripples under the glisten of sunfish.
 
☐Sun gold tomatoes bursting on a bed of bones.
 
☐Yesterday
or the day before
or just
to be little again.
 
☐Ear piercings: the shock of the needle through a soft lobe, baby fat
replaced by something real: sharp steel.

☐The delicate skill of disengaging
a deeply embedded hook.