Feng Shui

every quarter
we had

sold our double
bed and

kitchen table
with chairs

watched as the gold Oldsmobile
was repossessed

leaving us stranded in
the desert west of Las Cruces

in a trailer
with no electricity

rent unpaid and
a landlord who threatened

to shoot us
tonight

don’t think I
have given
up

my peacock feather
is in the right

sector

and the lid
is down

what that too you know

a telugu translation by Steve Errman

Trinity High Guidance Counselor