The American Poetry Review

TWO POEMS

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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