This Quest For

by Arlene Ang

hors d'ouvres to placate 97 guests is unappetizing
as the dinner squabbles of relatives who have
planed to town for the wedding. Is seafood still
politically correct, I wonder? He refuses to be
implicated in my decisions. A salad platter of
noxious mushrooms begins to look good. We might as well
elope, he sighs. It's the best idea he's had
so far. Our parents will never live it up. We
start packing for Bahamas, excited as ten-year-olds.

The Author

Arlene Ang lives in Venice, Italy where she edits the Italian pages of Niederngasse. Her poetry has recently been published in Tattoo Highway, flashquake, The Dublin Quarterly, Ghoti Magazine and Astropoetica. Three of her poems have been nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology.