Game Theory
He recalled playing with his fingers
during a class recitation
of the multiplication table.
It had been easy--only a
memory-show of numbered things.
Now, the finite had lost its allure.
The notion of probability became the root
of all fears. Looking up, he saw two
shadows
on the curtained bedroom windows.
The one moved--a gait like his wife's--
across the room. Night
was the dye that
exposed the first layer of the universe.
The infinite dirt road leading to the garage
was paved with ice all along. Soot melded
with the concrete walls. The paint had
peeled
in places he could not reach. His wife
kissed all
the frogs in search for her prince, and he
stood
there,
lost before the silence, the doors, the
floodlights.
More than 500 of Kristine Ong
Muslim's poems and stories
have appeared or are
forthcoming in over 200
publications worldwide. Her
poetry has appeared in Bellevue
Literary Review, Boxcar Poetry
Review, Chimera Magazine,
Envoi, GlassFire Magazine,
GUD Magazine,
Iota, Radiant Turnstile, The
Pedestal Magazine, Turnrow,
and Void Magazine.
Kristine OngMuslim
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