Intersections
The way you’d talk to me—
“Don’t.”
Your foot on the gas pedal.
My lips— a twitched parting—
a violent stop sign
where words should have been.
Nearly a T-bone
at the intersection.
A pause
in your anger.
You,
my wall.
You’re all the way inside me,
dense breath within
my spongy grey lungs.
Me,
on all fours,
turned away from you.
The Landscape We Left on Each Other is out of print from The Blasted Tree Store.
Featured by The Blasted Tree: October 8, 2018
Lauren Elle DeGaine
Contributing Author
The Landscape We Left on Each Other by Lauren Elle DeGaine is a Blasted Tree collection of poetry.
ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-37-0
Cover Design by Kyle Flemmer