received her BA in Art Practice and Near Eastern Studies from UC, Berkeley in 2003, and her Master's degree in Fine Art from CSU, Long Beach in 2006. Her current work looks at the ever-shrinking rural landscape of Sacramento, California, in moments when floodwaters revive the region's original alluvial nature.
Archeology
Is this a bone, a snap of wood,
or a stone veined with iron?
Maybe it's a knuckle,
out of a bird's wing.
Nothing lithe or fluted,
but one of the loose nuggets
that evolved into our fingers and toes.
It feels like purpose.
Would it sink if I threw it into the river?
How much of it is water?
What has water has life.
Clouds give life to the sky
and sticks and stones and bones all have
degrees of sweet or salty water,
or they'd turn to dust.
We'd be Mars without water.
Maybe it's a tool,
dropped from a master's hand.
Forgotten when his hand was forgotten,
only to be remembered today.
I am fairly sure this place is haunted.
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