Three Poems by Shannon K. Winston (poetry, ’18)

An excerpt from “Ways to View Jean Miró’s Triptych Bleu, I, II, III,” one of three poems by Shannon K. Winston (poetry, ’18) published at The Los Angeles Review:

Ways to View Jean Miró’s Triptych Bleu, I, II, III
1961

Start with the left
and you’ll see rain on
a windshield after a storm.

Begin with the right,
you’ll see only a kite string
drifting against the sky.

There are a thousand
ways to begin a story.
With the middle, perhaps,

is best: with a red sewing
needle stitching up black holes.
Or maybe they aren’t

holes, but pebbles
skimming the water
seconds before they sink.  […continue reading here]