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  • The American Poetry Review

    TWO POEMS

    Jan 01, 2023 2 minutes

    Resting on Laurel

    Laurel texts after breakfast with
    an unusual request: she wants me

    to rest on her. In more ordinary
    times this would feel retrogressive

    but given the space we’ve been
    made to keep shape in, I don’t

    question these pleasantries orask about masks.

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