RABBIT FEVER
Adults in early winter love
climbing toward open skin, walking in
the center of trails where weeds do not
brush against them. Burning it
with a match. The next best things
to wide masking tape are the eyes
and hands of small children. Myself, I feel
black as the head of a pin. You may want
to put this in a jar of rubbing alcohol
permanently marked with the date
and location. You may want to mouth
like a tiny barb, use petroleum
jelly or nail polish. I have displayed
the ruffle of your waist band
marks like a bird that eats all
the gardenias. I have rivered off
the yard dust with a half-frozen
coil before we close in
on the evening.
Jen Tynes lives in Denver and edits horse less press. She is Reviews and Interviews Editor for Denver Quarterly. Most recently she is the author of Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books). A chapbook collaboration with Mike Sikkema, Autogeography, is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review.
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