The American Poetry Review

FIVE POEMS

Thirsty

Animals that move
on small, short legs.

Sand that sucks in
anything / anyone.

Something seen
through a torn screen

I hadn’t expected it.

We all have
these genes
these sequences
of numbers

I don’t know
how they are
what they are.

This is you
every day
right now

in more than
one car

A basic love look
is missing.

Egosyntonic
or
Egodystonic

Splinter ratherthan organ.

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