at the end of a dark table
at the end of a dark table, the boy sits
and waits for the bible to come to him,
the boy sits and waits for his time to read
aloud the words of the bible, because when
he does he can dream, he can place himself
on the edge of the world, take a long look
at the ocean as it colors itself violent, as it
shakes the sharks into the air, he can dream
a boat made of fins, a stealth machine just
for him.
Elena Cisneros, is a grad student at Hamline University and is from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. Writer, born and raised.