Tangle
- It's the waiting that kills me, the incessant freshwater
- hum of lemon-scented clouds, compact body
- knowledge, and airbags included for free. A nouveau riche
- child picking his nose. My chemical
- peel dissolving in coffee, and I choose to be
- naked, shallow; my greatest fears involve cliché:
- weekends waxed with buttercream, dun-colored
- dinner parties. Goddamn, I say. Goddamn.
- Oh, how a tangle makes me happy!
- Oh, how the fire engines blare through the middle of the day!
- I rest in lower case. I'm an off-season country
- cottage, a structuralist in heat.
- Oh, the sounds of the elderly dancing!
- Oh, the glint of a nailgun aimed at my right eye!
- Could the world exist without oranges, only
- mackerel slapped on the table as cast iron
- heats in the distance? I rest my case: those harsh
- remains, that unrelenting milkjug in the fridge.
- R.D. Morgan lives in the Deep South, and she analyzes websites and markets books online for a living. She earned her MFA in Poetry nearly ten years ago (in 2003).