How I have to leave
how to finger after
before you forget when
do you clean house, pack books into boxes
with notes in margins, the
coffee cups, Dutch oven for Dad so he
what a proper—
what
Observe
a beer in
jest wonders
how long it
actually
takes
machine
meat learns the
drift
sequence
project
the absurdity of
real hips
of deer that take bananas
from your palm
CarolynMurphy lives in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in sPARKLE & bLINK and Samizdat.