Two Poems by Patty Nash

Orange precludes blue wavelengths in this nonaquarium but for balloon cuttlefish children and their adults in tandem lob so that they float to the ceiling then back to the floor. In this I am a yeast reaction. I propagate myself with glycerin in pistons and flasks and lambent floral and clangs on two grand pianos and include a plant who thinks it's a man wearing a blurry nametag and a suit and thumbing the screen on his phone to take a photo of our moving towards him and then changing course

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Patty Nash is a poet and translator. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, The Journal, The Collagist, Prelude, and elsewhere. She has MFAs in translation and creative writing from the University of Iowa. She tweets at @pattynashdj and lives in Berlin.