She Says
by Sara Krassin
I’ll tell you everything there were Words she says
Words she says Guilty of repeated forgetfulness
white words that sleep in echoes cross mouths
without looking both ways She opens her door
to the winds repeats until she’s drunk with birds
You there! she calls out shakes her so she’ll drop
the words she stole fills her mouth with gravel
her echo chains her to his house buries her there
She dreams in parallel slashes that meet beyond the
page Draw me a dream she says and fills it with
the distance between two names known only to her
They say his house is not a house nothing the way
you peel a fruit his tale unrolled his lines borrowed
She says one can be lost like water from a broken
jug she says One day I’ll leave nothing but echo
Words she says Guilty of repeated forgetfulness
white words that sleep in echoes cross mouths
without looking both ways She opens her door
to the winds repeats until she’s drunk with birds
You there! she calls out shakes her so she’ll drop
the words she stole fills her mouth with gravel
her echo chains her to his house buries her there
She dreams in parallel slashes that meet beyond the
page Draw me a dream she says and fills it with
the distance between two names known only to her
They say his house is not a house nothing the way
you peel a fruit his tale unrolled his lines borrowed
She says one can be lost like water from a broken
jug she says One day I’ll leave nothing but echo