WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP: AMERICA, AUGUST 2017

 

Look, my love
our sun went mad today
and reverted to blood

and if we hike sweet and high
our mouths brimming with wildfire

we might get close enough to taste
his naked burning rebellion.

 

 

 

Laura Falsetti is a dentist who lives and works south of Seattle. She is also an emerging poet with work published in WA129: Poets of Washington, Muse /A Journal, and Cider Press Review, among other literary journals. She considers all her work to be collaborations with her cats, who listen patiently as she reads/edits her poems out loud.