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Freesia McKee: Io’s Arms

July 15, 2013 by PBQ

That one bag night, he led me by my wrists          As if I couldn’t walk
I was so quiet          I don’t remember speaking          in the grass
he told me, unprovoked,          about          what he wanted: unoriginal things

what he liked to eat, his mother, his chest, what he didn’t know of his father

stories about shapes          the light          made         I was so quiet, then

 

Filed Under: Contributors 88, Issue 88, Poetry, Poetry 88 Tagged With: Contributors 88, Freesia McKee, Poetry, Poetry 88

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