Wreck Idyll / Trina Burke

  dancing girl press, 2013$7.00  Trina Burke is the author of Great America (Dancing Girl Press, 2010) and The Best Divorce (Alice Blue Books, 2012). She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Montana in 2008 and currently lives in Seattle. INCEPTION A girl, a child, a well, a bucket. These are the variables. What are the predictable outcomes? Work, chat, slack, murder, assistance given, assistance taken. Under clouds—blue, vanilla or other weather. Scented with Satsuma blossoms. We hope for the worst but expect the very best. Superlatives make for mundane morning news. A girl and a child and only the fever blisters on the latter’s lips keep her from speaking to the former. That is one way it could start. ***