- Foal Song
See this salt-lickedwound
this buried foalit is not real
the bed-sheet I usedto bury it
I pretend is immortalI pretend this
mouth is an unfinishedprayer
see the navel of this riveris beautiful
this digestion is notreal
these eyes are notblinking
I pretend to carvethrough
this cataract of iceto fill [End Page 225]
the inward caveof the mouth
see the dirt of thesehands
the wince of theseroots [End Page 226]
Peter LaBerge is the author of the chapbook Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). His work appears in Beloit Poetry Journal, Copper Nickel, Best New Poets 2014, DIAGRAM, and Indiana Review, among others. He lives in Philadelphia, is a student at the University of Pennsylvania and the Founder & Editor-in-Chief of The Adroit Journal.