They coerced the ink into a sacred text and instructed us to quietly find our seats between the words.
Touch; The Absurdity of Life, Death and Ms. Duff’s Funeral Procession; Between the Lines
Suburban Spring; Dylan Thomas, 5 a.m.; The Year That Betty White Died; Prufrock Singin’ in the Rain; Hourglass
Do not go fretful into that cold light That leaks around the doorframe from the day. Stay, stay and watch the biding of the night.
Swallow; Ancient Wine
Mother’s tea kettle sings to an empty house. My sisters abandon her, because we are young, and act grown. Keep the water in your mouth. It’ll go down easier if you hold your nose.
ghosts, deception; Prey; two girls buy the world
in dreams you return. beneath a tangerine sun on the longest car ride, we talk and we talk and i have since forgotten all but your laughter speeding through light.
St. Francis’s Prayer and the Serenity Prayer
God, grant me the serenity to accept, with upraised palms, smooth like two nickels, the word that sometimes, like a loosed neuron, frenetically flits across a yellow field,