Divia's Response

The day my daughter asks
why airplanes fly

into buildings,
she shows me a drawing.

It has no name, she says.
It’s just a painting.

The shaded part
is a mountain.

Beneath it,
a giant heart.

The mountain is a Mountain
of Doom, with spikes,

but the circles,
they’re Dream Rivers.

Some Xs are volcanos.
Some are camels.

The sand is made of gold.
The heart is made of sand.

Some of the camels
are sleeping.

*Sascha Feinstein is a poet, essayist, and editor. His poetry collection Misterioso won the Hayden Carruth Award (Copper Canyon Press, 2000), and individual poems have appeared in publications such as American Poetry Review, North American Review, Georgia Review, and The Penguin Book of the Sonnet. He is the author of two related critical books--Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present and A Bibliographic Guide to Jazz Poetry--and co-editor (with Yusef Komunyakaa) of The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its companion volume The Second Set. Individual essays have appeared in publications such as The Southern Review, African American Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Recent awards include a fellowship for poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is Professor at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where he chairs the English department, co-directs the Creative Writing Program, and edits Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature.