An excerpt from

O N E _ P E T A L _ R O W
By Jaimie Gusman • November 2011 • $3
Design by Eric Butler

from “the grandfather paradox”

We were trying to find the first woman,
the first man, and the first idea
to come between them, to find that idea
and forced upon it a mysterious death.
But the garden was empty.

Perhaps we needed to travel further.
But where will I find you?
The two lovers ask when we wake up
what will become of us?
Perhaps we will be, forever.

Jaimie Gusman lives in Honolulu where she studies and teaches at the University of Hawai`i, Mānoa. She runs the M.I.A. Art & Literary Series and blogs at poeticvetanda.blogspot.com