Zombia / Kassandra Lee

  dancing girl press, 2014$7.00 dancing girl press, 2014$7.00Kassandra Lee grew up in San Diego, California. Her poems have most recently appeared in The Columbia Review and Quarto Literary Magazine. She received her Bachelors in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University. She lives in Beijing where she works as an arts educator. THE SCREW, THE CLOUDHoney is a chalk miner’s daughter.She straps me to the cinder blockssince I am her peach internal ear.Since we drink root beer on Daddy’s porch, Honey, come spring, polishes off my temporary ghost like stringcheese. A soul peels the way thatcheese does, slow. Sand rats come and gowith the knowledge that I should also remain anonymous. Fruit bats swarm in the burnt out barn by oursworn silence. Bumper cars jar meto sleep in the Santa Ana winds. Honey presses her bandanaagainst me like a road sign sandstormedagainst the earth, warmed in a heatimpossible to get through unlessyou know the Pacific brews bluebe