West Trade Review Online Exclusive: "(All the Irrational Things) I Want" by Trianne Harabedian

Trianne Harabedian

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Trianne Harabedian holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University. She worked in independent bookstores for three years at Lemuria Books in Jackson, MS and Green Apple Books in San Francisco, CA, and now works in instructional technology. Originally from Fresno, she is currently pursuing her MFA at San Francisco State University. Her work has been featured in Qwerty Magazine, Glass Mountain's Shards and Transfer Magazine.

(All the Irrational Things) I Want

to catch the yellow moth

paused in the grass she found

a singular dandelion not yet gone to seed

her curled tongue sucks nectar

I move quickly to pinch

her tented wings hold her soft body

stare into her glass bead eyes

but she moves before I am close

startles to another spot of grass

perhaps it’s just as well

my hands would now be yellow

with pollen from her stomach

my fingertips stained golden

with minuscule feathers from her wings

the ache to fully see this creature

want blurs into need blurs into possess

I am not the one who needs

feathers pollen my fingers are flighty enough

they stick to whatever they find lovely

I crouch in the grass

use my clumsy grasp to pull

the abandoned dandelion towards my face

so that I can smell this new yellow

stare at the oblong petals

I stare at beautiful things

but I can never stare long enough

to feel full

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