David Iribarne earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from CSUS. He currently resides in Sacramento. He has had poems published in Poetry Now, Tule Review, Sussurus, Catchword, Medusa’s Kitchen, Primal Urge, WTF?!, Monterey Poetry Review, Convergence, Coalesce Magazine and has had work in a The Creating Freedom exhibit on Domestic Violence at California Museum. He also won second prize inSacramento News & Review’s student poetry contest in 2005. Peaches. One He also has a piece published in SPC’s Sacramento Anthology Late of his poems also was recently developed with other authors’ poems into a play by playwright Ed Claudio entitled The River City Anthology. His book of poetry, Bones, Skin, and Soul is forthcoming from Cold River Press.
Refuge
Afghans, sweaters, scarves, blankets
it was part of her nightly routine.
Sitting on the couch across from her
I marveled at how she knitted her web.
I loved watching her creations.
She began with just a ball of yarn
and within a couple of hours
she had the makings of blanket or scarf.
It was how she masked the pain.
Knitting was one of the few things
she could do to divert her mind.
It helped her escape.
