Three Poems

Emily as the Tower

I have seen Ohio

come for us

before

& I will see Ohio

come for us

again.

I really don’t care

why they storm

our metaphors.

Emily as We Remove the Bone

Once we agreed

that we had bodies

the love

Emily

& I shared

went to work

experimenting

with that idea.

Not all

of our ideas

are good.

It’s fun, though.

Emily as Another Slaughter

Look how my muscles can hang

when Emily decides to have me

be displayed like this, here.