Learning to Believe the News

A year of crying went by in small places
Asymmetrical, swift and harsh

Matched boxes stuck at the hinges
Predictable like a bell

 We thought, any sentence now
Our words held up by loose suspenders

One woman to another:
It’s so nice to see your eyes 

The idea is over now, we’d say
If the world was a book 

2020

Originally published in SOUP CAN MAGAZINE 2022