Rachel Dacus
The Life of Umbrellas
I want to live the life of umbrellas,
full of sudden openings, of stealth and travel.
To sometimes fold my bat wing heart away
and reach over your head
to close you in a bubble.
On the path across the Ponte Vecchio
in light drizzle, I would parasail you, keeping out
the scorch of a moghul-arched cloud,
the rattle of a strong gust. I might turn
inside out, becoming the reverse
of myself, and you could follow,
unsuiting as fast as gypsy fingers
find a pocket on a March day
in a square dotted with drops.
Rachel Dacus has published or work forthcoming in The Atlanta Review, Alsop Review, Many Mountains Moving, Prairie Schooner, small spiral notebook and Rattapallax. Her poetry collection, Earth Lessons, was published by Bellowing Ark Press in 1998 and my CD, A God You Can Dance, was recently released. Her work has been in the anthologies: Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English (Wesleyan University Press, 2000), The Poetry of Roses (Abrams, 1995) and The Best of Melic (Melic Review, 2001).
She serves as a staff member of the online poetry forum The Alsop Review and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her website is here.
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