Ode to the Mortar
I doubt /
you have a heart, in our understanding of /
that term /
- Louise Gluck
JAKE
Mixie
CW: Parental absence
Notes from a Spatula
I knew the woke mob would come for me one day.
Wedding Spoon
Until then we’d used my bachelor utensils, a lightweight set inherited from a former roommate, provenance unknown.
Houseplant Dirge
the Jade Plant and the African Violet have gone
Billy Collins Is Bored with My Dead Mother
after “The Lanyard”
either / or
after elliott smith