Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Tuesday poem #539 : Alana Solin : LIST

 

 

 

The game is silken,
scattered, alive. There is
a plan for me.

Ants walk on water,
beetles on string,
leather cracks
where pulled,
and you
can’t be serious.

My thighs ruched up
against my chest,
my heart swollen shut
around the seed, the hoofbeat
and your train stop
and the train, spurred
and golden.

 

 

 

Alana Solin is a writer and collage artist from New Jersey. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Afternoon Visitor, Annulet, Second Factory, Tyger Quarterly, and elsewhere. You can find more of her work at alanasol.in.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan

 

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