I would like to speak to the man in charge
Rent from DeepDyve- I would like to speak to the man in charge
The racket is like a drawer of silverclattering to the floor.
This morning outside my kitchen windowa sharp-shinned hawktore apart a yellow birdin the apple tree.
What do you propose we do when our questionsbecome useless?
Every day, I forgive you these messes.
Goodness is not a false positive. The bloodlineis not a false positive—nor are the ghostswho raised me.
Go ahead and wield your mighty blankness,I too can sing into my pillow,sir. [End Page 159]
Alison Prine’s poems have appeared in journals including The Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Shenandoah. Her first collection of poems, Steel, was chosen by Jeffrey Harrison for the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award and will be published in 2016. She lives in Burlington, Vermont where she works as a psychotherapist.
