Overtures of Survival | Cindy Savett

Cindy Savett lives on the outskirts of Philadelphia. She is the author of two full length collections, Child in the Road (2007) and The Breath (2021). When she is not writing, Cindy leads poetry groups to inpatients in psychiatric hospitals.  ______________________________ DriftingDirt girl seeps through my cracked kitchen wall out ofher spoiled scent. I fret over her urgent hands, shield each brick she aches to depose. Altering her seeds to warp my memory she re-invents her infant years, circles my kitchen table that crouches with bread for my halting mouth. Used-to-be girl wears damaged skin, demands surrender of my vague tilted lap. She races to rule. With one turn I loosen her knotted string from my chest and drift and drift and drift…