"Goldfish," "X-Ray," and "Bedfast"
Goldfish
Closest thing
you’ll ever get
to luck’s
a ping pong ball
landing
in your cup.
X-Ray
Is that
a tree
or a
mushroom
cloud
in that
picture?
Bedfast
All this
talk
of lying
and integrity—
there’s no
saving
my own
skin.

Randi Ward is a poet, translator, lyricist, and photographer from Belleville, West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and is a recipient of the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Prize. MadHat Press published Ward’s second full-length poetry collection, Whipstitches, in 2016. Her work has also been featured on Folk Radio UK, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. For more information, visit randiward.com/about.