SO BE IT
Every cantaloupe is a stranger
So we go in
We’ve all ridden
delusions into the sunset
Your pancakes grin from their plate.
saying no one has to die.
No one has to slip into the sea
and never come back up.
I have more than one tiger
that loves me, a baby that doesn’t,
a beautiful map we draw
to your burial, a big owl,
mercy again,
we didn’t know.
Robin Lee Jordan is the coordinator of the Just Buffalo Writing Center, a free creative writing center for teens in Buffalo, NY, and received her MFA in poetry from Oregon State University. Her poetry and lyric prose have been published or are forthcoming in journals/anthologies such as Poor Claudia, alice blue review, Puerto del Sol, Paper Darts, Peach Mag, My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry (Blazevox), and Us Too: An Anthology of Withdrawn Poetry (Peach Mag).
