"Message from Cuba" by John Rodzvilla

Message from Cuba

We received a
Message from our
Brother in Cuba.
It crossed the straight
In a duck egg.
It took longer
Than the post to
Get here. When it
Did there were stamps
Of women in
Scarves carrying
Grapes in crates in
A starlit field.

Inside was
The odd phrase
Floating in
Yolk on a
Collagen
Membrane:
Tiny writing
Of quotes from
Churchill and
Twain.

We served it
Over rice.

JOHN RODZVILLA

John Rodzvilla teaches in the publishing and writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. His work has appeared in Harvard Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, gorse, decomP, and several others.

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