Too High and Too Blue in New Mexico | Becca Yenser

 Becca Yenser was born in the midwest, raised in Oregon, and occasionally resides in New Mexico. She is a first year MFA candidate in creative writing at Wichita State University, where she also interns for Dzanc Books and edits for Mikrokosmos Literary Journal. Her work recently appears in: Pom Pom Lit, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, The Nervous Breakdown, 1001 Editors, Fanzine, Eclectica Magazine, decomP, HOOT, and CHEAP POP. This is her first full-length collection of poetry. Find more writing on Ink Node, and at https://beccayenser.wordpress.com/.       How To Forgive In the Desert   First, attach yourself to the sky. Go to the furthest edge of city: violet, Starstruck, closer to god. Not everyone Has the heart for it. Some hearts are less red.   Find yourself a cloud kingdom. Don’t Come down easily, stay up in that thin air. Don’t think about how you can’t breathe. People have not breathed here for 11,000 years.   Second, try to remember why you’re here. Slick rock playground. These are hip