Writer Spotlight: Sparrow Potter

Consuming 

Sparrow Potter

“and there’s the moon,thinner than a watchspring” - e. e. cummings 

When you’re tired and hungry and 

you don’t know where to look, there’s 

always the reflection of your sickly pin-straight soul on the 

lake. Go on, paddle paddle to the full pizza pie moon 

in the center. Your grandmother will beg you to eat, say you’re thinner 

than thin, skinnier than 

skin. What, are you frightened yet? Scared to be seen as a 

skeleton through a ticking clock? Hyoid for minute hand? Stapes for watchspring?