So desperately 
these seagulls imitate roosters—
in a city where all the puddles 
try to resemble lakes, 
neither becks nor rivers 
carry water. 

Here 
no one dares 
to dream of the sea. 

Alexandra Fössinger

is the author of the poetry collection Contrapasso (Cephalopress, 2022). Her work is published in Tears in the Fence, The High Window, Feral, Gyroscope Review, Oyster River Pages, and Tokyo Poetry Journal, among others. She is mostly interested in the spaces between things, the overlooked, the unsaid.