Tuesday poem #408 : Julia Drescher : after the funeral

 

 

telling a story your father out fixing

wires while standing in water gets sparked

& thrown from the shed & your cousin said it's not

the electricity that throws you but your own flesh.

 

 

 

Julia Drescher's most recent publications include the chapbooks ANTIBIOGRAPHY (FOBW, 2020), BLATTA and METASTATIC FLOWER (above/ground press, 2020) & a full-length collection OPEN EPIC (Delete Press, 2017). She lives in Colorado.

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