Erika Lutzner is the author of two chapbooks with dancing girl press and has a chapbook out with Kattywompus Press. She also has a book out with Calypso Press called While Everything Slipped Away From Me. Her work can be found in various journals across the internet such as Eclectica Journal, failbetter, and wicked alice. She grew up in Garrett Park, Maryland, next to Porcupine Woods and behind the train tracks. She's a former violinist and former chef. Currently, she is a writer living in Brooklyn with her two cats Nikki and Neo and her boyfriend Louis.
My mouth knits itself into the shape of a church
but the groom is gone and the rain is bleeding
through the pews. I wish I could remember you.
The air is thick with your scent but you are absent.
I cannot remember your name, only the color of your eyes,
blue-grey, and your hair, bleached like a summer day.
Puddles form on the floor of the church, pools of crimson
coagulating without a home. I wonder if this is what death feels like,
cold and exposed, blood raining without a home.