She's Lost Control by Elizabeth Jenike

Author:Elizabeth Jenike
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: QuarkXPress, ebook, epub
Publisher: Post Mortem Press
Published: 2019-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

TIME TRAVEL

Theresa Gaffney

Some days you expect

to last longer than others;

I mean this in two ways. First:

you expect the hours to stroll

like honey down the bottle, like

you and her, hand in hand in

the park, meandering into afternoon

at speeds faster than you’ve agreed to.

You want to bask in bright laughter,

watch the sun set but never go down.

This never works. She’s the type it hurts

to smile too much.

The second way I mean this:

when you expect not to cry at your desk

but you well up, grey and wet, in your cubicle

kick holes into boxes in the closet before lunch

crawl under the table to count the almonds

and their solar systems of almond dust. Leave

early and by the time you arrive home,

your layers are peeled back, rotten.

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