I will not move
I will not move to another state,
say Wyoming, or liquid.
I am rooted by an anxiety
planted inside me like a vile
extra organ. I will not
travel. You who have gone far
look back and there I am: almost a
smudged ending, almost an angel.
I talked to
I talked to
Wendy
the way
the gods talk to
the other
gods. What was
I after?
I was after-
math. I
was afterbirth.
I was
a gone daddy,
after all.
COREY MESLER has been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Gargoyle, Lunch Ticket, Five Points, Good Poems American Places, and New Stories from the South. He has published over 50 books of fiction and poetry. With his wife he owns Burke’s Book Store (est. 1875) in Memphis.