Because we are not animals, napkins
- Because we are not animals, napkins
As leaves to tables, knees to knees, a napkin pressed in wide French pleat. No goblet fan or fleur de lis. Behind this rose do take your sit. Black and blue his piece on plate with drop of wine, sea salt to taste. I fold in half. Curl one side back. I mass my pile, you sip and saw. The numbered tries to learn anew some ordered path of lines and cloth. She dabs her lip and to the heap another linen. Help is cheap. [End Page 78]
Rachel Mindell
Rachel Mindell is an MFA candidate in poetry and MA candidate in Literature at the University of Montana. Her chapbook, A Tear-drop and a Bullet, will be released in 2015 by Dancing Girl Press. Individual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Horse Less Review, DESTROYER, Anti-, inter|rupture, and elsewhere.
