RUTH WILLIAMS


                                     



THE ENTERING SPACE

 

 

Leavening the cold weather
and the sorrow your mother causes you

like a blue snowman we let grow to ice.
Punch it now, won't you?

Someone wrote their name in the snow
and I kicked at it until

my legs were covered with white confetti,
their name written over me.

I was out of control
and you were standing next to me incubating rage

so there wasn't a minute in which I could distinguish
myself from you.

I meant this as the most sincere of
all my lies.







TYPO 29