Something

Hannah Butcher

There’s something about you standing there in just a towel

that makes me want to wrap around you like gauze

Maybe it’s because I know that healing is found in damp chest hair and acne scars and your hair, splattering my dress

This is what it’s like to miss someone I’m with, to ache for warmth

Hannah Butcher is an English major with Creative Writing and Jewish Studies minors. Her poetry has appeared in “Sequestrum,” and appears in “Sky Island Journal” and “The Headlight Review.” She currently serves as editor-in-chief of The Sandspur, the campus newspaper.

beautiful, you say, and I agree, there’s something beautiful about you, your naked toes on the tile, and me, my parted lips like an open wound