A Place to Lie Down
Rent from DeepDyve- A Place to Lie Down
If I were a bee, I might build my homein the gutted rind of a melon, or in a lion's ribcage.
Other professional experience: every Sundaynoticing the weed flowering in the rain gutter and doing nothing about it.Eventually, water backs up, bubbles the paint in the dining room.It is not my paint my rain or my dining room.
Meanwhile, ants clear the driveway of cicadas,a harvest. My mother coughs into the receiver.The cemetery looks pretty to people who don't visit regularly.
In the Fin and Feather Inn, Where the Heart Is plays on a loop.Outside: a gray and yellow wedding. I am jealous I told someone of everyone and everything. [End Page 3]
Natalie Homer is an MFA candidate at West Virginia University. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Journal, Blue Earth Review, The Pinch, Lascaux Review, Ruminate, Salamander, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others. She received an honorable mention for poetry in the 2017 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Awards.
