Ashley Colley's poems have appeared in Orion, Colorado Review, Prelude, jubilat, Black Warrior Review, New Delta Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Memphis.
NO PLACE
Press very hard
on this emblem babe
Know not what I do
What euphoria or torture knows
a salted worm
held up to the sun
Was it your pain or mine
melts the ice caps down
Life flees our flooded house
roots around
and becomes gutter stuff
Some tongues respond
A crocus looms
The day flicks on