Crack an egg
above an oiled skillet;
watch the viscous translucence
coalesce whitely—the sliding yolk, a
sizzling sun, toward which
Icarus flew, now a
black pepper flake. Spatula
flip of that begging
egg—Icarus, the chirping,
flipped bird hatching
breakfasts at the crack
of dawn.
Author of two full-length poetry collections and four poetry chapbooks, Hiromi Yoshida is a finalist for the New Women’s Voices Poetry Prize, and a semifinalist for the Gerald Cable Book Award. She is the Poetry Editor of Flying Island Journal and serves on the board of directors for the Writers Guild at Bloomington, while coordinating the Guild’s Last Sunday Poetry reading series.