Issue Thirty-Two - Summer 2018

View from the Bottom of the Hourglass Economy

By Lita Kurth

For my many friends and family who live there

I can feel past my wallet
almost all the way
to “Five Guys Burgers”
big red letters
not today
maybe payday

The red hand goes up
to say hi,
Don’t cross.
Christmas lights sparkle down
like snowflakes
you can never build a snowman with
much less a fort

A pigeon sits in the traffic light
the big red one on top
Could she make a nest there?
Right in front of everyone?
Maybe. For a while.

Copyright Kurth 2018

Lita Kurth has published in three genres. “Are We Not Ladies?” was nominated by Watershed Review for Best of the Net, 2017 and “Fish Genesis” was nominated by Rabid Oak for a 2019 Best of the Net award. “This is the Way We Wash the Clothes” (CNF) won the 2014 Diana Woods Memorial Award (Lunchticket). Her creative nonfiction “Pivot” and short story, "Gardener's Delight" (Dragonfly Press DNA) were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is a co-founder of San Jose’s literary series, Flash Fiction Forum. MFA- Rainier Writers Workshop,

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