When I Was Small I Imagined: Diana Ospina

April 4, 2020 Kate Belew with Diana Ospina (New York City)

When I look to my ceiling I see

The dents from heavy stares

when I was small I imagined

I had superpowers and could. 

One for every other whisked off petal 

on the daisies, of this daisy chain. 

I chase the phosphenes like a cheetah chases her prey

gaining speed, a hurtling comet. 

Floating, drifting, avoiding

a skill I've carried from childhood in a bag on my back. 

In another life, I outran Borisov - without the extra weight. 

But here instead, this life is

The resilient cracks on a glass mosaic.