bridge
why is no one going to Brooklyn
I line teacups that way
braid paper bags on downtown
train floors match workboot stain
don’t leave space or take it somewhere
me where placent specs die down
what’s in a train floor?
coats uneven in a max-size bongo drum
bridge
what’s in a catastrophe?
cat line made an especially
poppy squeeze
left palladium center
cantoring placed a treebud
scribble through 10 streets
only on the 3+
puffin’ worth another miss
my grate a forth puncture
caught looking at the red shoulder
what’s a
catastrophe?
having met
a shiftysense
catastrophe
(wishing for the mellow)
caring about peaches
splice of
unpopularity bus
all way
goes state
island
multiplier of missing cents
capping one evergreen #
what’s in a membrum
‘nother evergreen place
‘nother caring Latin home
| Ad Herenium |
‘nother dickhead stare
think meant zombie but never know
hearts walk today
only white bus overtook
thought a hollow sneeze
mis take lint overcoming
only smuggle
sayonara
shitfest making
something like mayonnaise
more butter than this
muppet palladium mocking
ways create
poppy dimple smile
wow!
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Emily Shafer is an MFA candidate in Image Text at Cornell University, holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Brooklyn College, and teaches first-year writing at CUNY. She is the author of it’s too early for poetry (Proper Tales Press) and I found looking (above/ground press). Born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., she lives and works in New York City. @emilyshaferwrites / www.emilyshaferwrites.com