Jesus Year

Girl pictures and

Earthly delights

White rhinestone collar

Metal raked against concrete

Frayed panties in the trashcan

Not not ready for baby

Tongue fat with want

Twenty-nine private tabs

And what were we investigating?

Lunar love songs, “smells like vinegar”

The very last to leave the party

You said it felt as natural as breathing

Isabel Galupo is an Emmy-nominated TV writer, picture book author, and poet who splits her time between Los Angeles and Louisville. Her poems have appeared in Pegasus: The Literary Journal of the Kentucky State Poetry Society and Pine Hills Review.