The pours look short, my need many-fingered. Don’t worry. You can always order another, I whisper, my own enabler, but all measures prove insufficient to the thirst that conjures them. Coming here, I saw two redtails copulating over the freeway, a flutter of feathers on a pole, surely they didn’t fret as they took again to air— that a failing of marrow-boned creatures. Twice today, I stumbled upon the same Millner sonnet—IKEA, B & D, the narrator younger than I, so presumably hipper. Is that what fame requires—calling pain pleasure? I close my tab, tip the bartender, and, exiting, hug my misery tighter.
Teacher Devon Balwit walks in all weather. In her most recent collection, Spirit Spout [Nixes Mate Books, 2023], she romps through Melville’s Moby Dick. For more, visit: pelapdx.wixsite.com/devonbalwitpoet.
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