8 December 2009 | Vol. 9, No. 4

Inari

by KATRINA ROBERTS

Why do we love you? So easy:

You have many faces

And each one shines upon us.

You become the one we need

Though we cannot name this need,

And you require little in return.

Each day, we marry our fingers

To the air you displace moving

Toward us and away. Our

Smallest suck them, hoping your

Sweetness might remain. Tell us

What to carry and we’ll go.

Our tails glow white in the moon.