he was crouched there counting on his fingers and then his toes. Suzanne,Tanya, Gillian, Clara, Fannie, Veronica, and that set of twins at the stag party, the one from the bar that monday night and Carol, but that was love and he really wanted to marry her, her cousin, which meant that when Carol found […]
Tag: Samantha Coerbell
Swirl
“i dreamed a vision of you saying all the right things.” or, i might walk blocks out of my way to watch the lights flicker in his room. each river that runs takes me to a larger body and each larger body reminds me that nothing can ever really be mine. i will never be sailing across the ocean […]
The Girl Thinks of Staying and other poems
The Girl Thinks of Staying after the flight de/planing is always a struggle 2 carry-on bags packed like a can of sardines w/ sardine cans canned milk canned ham mom hands me my allotted 2 one of hers and waits painted ladies pass like so many peacocks anxious to display the bounty of the states […]