The line of tourists
in bright teeshirts
looks like
a glimpse between train cars
the staccato lurch of an old film
a broken rainbow

Joan Wiese Johannes’s fifth poetry collection, Lamenting My Failure to Learn How to Tap Dance, was published by Water’s Edge Press. She has won/placed in contests sponsored by Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, Free Verse, Peninsula Pulse, and the Midwest Writing Center; her chapbook, Sensible Shoes, won the 2009 Alabama Poetry Society’s chapbook competition.