Edgar Castrejon via Unsplash
SATURDAY’S HAZE
Texas Chocolate
double butter-stick
s h e e t c a k e
with pistachios
(& big flats of salt)
must remain right
side up or else
meet its maker
on our kitchen floor.
Blue jay on its
branch outside,
the couchside
window only catches
breeze head-first.
But we are able
to romp like liminal
pans &
s u s p e n d e d
b i r d s —
our prepositions
are flung
across the room
without regard & spun
from solid center
with no desire
for the constraint
of orientation.
LINDSEY PANNOR
Lindsey Pannor is a writer, editor, and bookseller living in Berkeley, California. She currently works as a Program Assistant at the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley and as a bookseller at Moe’s Books. She received her BA in English from UC Berkeley in 2020, where she also minored in creative writing and journalism. She has served in both design and editorial roles for publications such as ZYZZYVA, Amadeus Magazine, and The Berkeley Poetry Review.