above the shopping cart
a sky full of stars
-Ana Drobot (Romania)
I like that the first line was homeless and not 'the' homeless allowing the reader to also see it from a homeless person's eyes. Dealing with homelessness and even the humbling image of carrying along their possessions in a shopping cart to my ear has an unpretentious melancholy mood of wabi sabi. But I also like how line 3 can give us pause to see the virtues of such a life, modest, harsh, and fleeting as they may be, to live not only on the streets but among nature and beneath the stars, and the symbolism of stars reminds us that they too can hope and dream.
Review by Michael Baribeau
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