I am cactus without flower,
camel without hump, oasis
without water. I am absence
of wishes and desire
to wander deeper into monotonous
dunes. I am independent
grain, drifting in wind, hoping
I will find friction, fuse
into reflective solid, shine
as blue of my eye becomes mirror
to anonymous seekers of the world.
About A.J. Huffman
A.J. Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her eighth solo chapbook, Drippings from a Painted Mind, won the 2013 Two Wolves Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.
