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dancing girl press, 2014
$7.00 Vanessa received her MFA at CUNY Brooklyn. Her most recent work has appeared or will appear in Word Riot, The Atlas Review, Similar:Peaks:: and Smoking Glue Gun. Her chap Red Poems is forthcoming from Similar:Peaks:: Poetry and Press. She co-parents fivequarterly.org. ON TEXT Hey, I’ll be honest Perhaps we shouldn’t Go apartment hunting tmr This town we’ve left it before Gone all the way To the water and chanted For it to change us but it left Us wrecked like old ships On the sand cold I’ll go though We refuse the Fates Put a hand In their face Room through room with u Ask practical questions About heat Light the living room gets Let’s open cabinets Like we care how much they fit Remember when we found this place We live in now Those empty white rooms Of ourselves Seemed so grand we gave in I did I lipsticked lines of this msg On the bathroom mirror Maybe that wasn’t smart or indecent enough But we needed a thing like it U haven’t said it was beautiful But it’s been there a week Have u seen it U must see it Every time u see yourself We can fit the bed there |