“junkyard carousels,
horses with their mouths polished into jump rope handles”

“the king & the redhead sip proof from blue glass, radio on”

“I ran away and I’m not sorry. I found my heart in the crisper”

“This love is homely,

Earthbound, it slices bread”

“I thought that everyone had eaten an omelette at least once”

“rub bobby pins like twigs. make fire. smoke signals.”

“Your dress has been pulled
upward,
inside out.
You are beheaded
by folds of fabric.”

“this secret garden, sacred dirt

of my sex”

“stand my body on a rock,
nail my hands to the wheeling stars”

“I don’t walk inside. I don’t watch the curtains
as the pale hands inside cry wolf.”