
This selection, chosen by guest curator Addie Tsai, is from Look Alive by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett, released by Southeast Missouri State University Press in 2021.
Notes Toward Softness
First, dismount the mattress.
Your grip slackens until one
finger clings. Upon release,
pray the skull’s cardamom
pod crushes to fine powder,
sweet marrow drains from
limbs. Once a sieve, be run
through by woe. Darn what
baffles. What chafes, lift
to light. As necessary, cup
a loved chin or chew pastry.
Don’t let blowflies alight—
their buzz of angel-flanked
gates, sealed caskets is only
noise. When tongues loosen,
stand motionless as the doe
of words noses its clearing.
Know when to dissolve,
like a salt lick, to tears.


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