Karen Lozinski

JOHN CAGE WASHES HIS SHIRT IN A HOTEL SINK

They force us into damp, daily minutiae and then complain there’s no art.
We hover over pages and canvases for days
teasing imagery alive and no one takes out the garbage.
Man, it stinks in here.
I never want you to be less than special,
I tell my boyfriend as I walk him through the steps
of a successful load of laundry.
He still doesn’t know why the clothes need room to agitate,
but his heavy fingers become a flock of expert birds
over the keyboard, knowing just when to touch down and when to fly.



Karen Lozinski is a NYC native who lives in New Orleans.  She has a BA from NYU and an MFA from CalArts. Her photographs and artwork have been in multiple shows and are widely published. At work on a novel and poetry collection, her poetry is published in Talon Review.