Turing Test
Pick one: present or gift.
Have I just asked a question?
Does moonlight exist?
How come fire flies like the evening but fruit flies like a peach?
Why are there verbs for you that suggest many yous, but none for she or me?
What keeps you awake?
Who was the first to develop teeth?
Who wouldn’t enjoy a little strawberry ice cream?
Can you dream?
These are your ingredients: snow slippers, a star leopard, fields with grass long as fur, hair full of waves, a body of work. What could you make?
Why do people take their clothes off when they’re freezing to death?
Name something so beautiful no one can believe it.
Copyright © 2024 by Mag Gabbert. Originally published in The Iowa Review. 53.2 (2024). Reprinted by permission of the poet.