UNMET: AGAIN

BY STEPHANIE ROBERTS

wherever you’re going i am going with you say … I’m afraid say … I’m a yam i don’t want to go nowhere through nothing with nobody say desire wriggles in your bowels mute tapeworm munching chalk, clay, charcoal tell fear your dreams never slept not by my hands it is you who beat your fist-sized muscle half to death —pulled it over grates & grates of regret place newborn faith on a belly of shared solitude warm in the sure-coming sunset save all your yeses for me roost yourself in this nest put blood over the door of the past inside the future has eyes only for you.