In the movie
there was a flying bed
There was a witch
and a mountain
and it was easy
to imagine
my own bed
flying over the mountain
away from the witch
or whatever was bad
The way my body
would fly away
and wait on the ceiling
The way you started
watching your life
like watching a movie,
from a safe distance
Kimberly L. Becker is author of Words Facing East; The Dividings (WordTech Editions), and Flight (forthcoming, MadHat Press). Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies, including IDK Magazine, Panoply, Indigenous Message on Water; Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence; and Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits.