ORDER OF THE TRIPLE HEART

by Jo Podvin

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Octopuses’

eccentric arm-brained

touchtasting lightshow proclivities

include advanced degrees in shapeshifting

and slipsuckery. Playful curious—like us—

yet not so gregarious. No society, so no

tendency toward hierarchy, rank, position;

no notion of collective blood-

spilling. No honor, so no

honor killing.

Jo Podvin lives in Oakland, California, on the Ring of Fire. She has one chapbook—cartographic failure—and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Brooklyn Review, EcoTheo Review, Gastronomica, The Scribbler, Bittersweet, The Canyon Chronicle, and Tricycle, and on the websites and airwaves of the public radio programs Forum (KQED) and A Prairie Home Companion. She occasionally posts missives on her Medium page.