Carolann Caviglia Madden’s work has appeared in Women in Clothes (Penguin, 2014), Souvenir, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Houston.
What One Leaf Tells
In the wind, questions to heaven bang the white poplar. Answers fracture –
a thousand white leaves. A thousand blameless mouths. A thousand. Ten thousand colorless excuses;
I pi…