Kate Lindroos

Bigfoot

I learn that to want
there to be monsters

is perhaps monstrous itself
or maybe not so yet

indecision too is also monstrous
I learn, unavoidable in that

even to know the term
is to inhabit it in the same way

that water will fill
a container of any kind

so that a man might
create footprints

unknowingly and larger
than he should

and frightened see them
as belonging to another.

Kate Lindroos lives in western Massachusetts. Her chapbook The Costume of a Hunter is out now from Factory Hollow Press. Recent poems appear in jubilat, Sixth Finch, Barrow Street, Permafrost, Cover, Big Big Wednesday, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Gramma Poetry.