May 2018

my mandibles as serrated as my remarks / about the life she chose—she flies backwards.

feeling married and enclosed / as rain flecks our windows, // lashing the car, the road, the grasses, / the bright and hot transformed

For now, we are returned to nature: he is wanted, he wants not.

let your bare toes take root everywhere they will / let the wind shake loose your laughter

the left pea pod is asleep / they are craters on the dead / surface of the moon / or maybe they are tiny / mouths of goldfish

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