Pink Grotesque
I walked last night
the dark circle
under my right eye
I carried
a blade
I did not carry
authority
Balanced on the arch
of my lower lash
I saw a hand slash
As the blood ran
I recognized your hand.
Late Pink Orgasm
From down the hall
or is it coming
through the neighbor’s
open window
turn your head to echolocate
there is a phone
and it is ringing one of those
old-timey phones
connected by a wire
to an outlet in the baseboard
plug & jack
ringing in the old way
which depending on
circumstance could sound
like yellow chirping
like accusation
or something suddenly close
bringing me to
this right here.
LESLIE MCGRATH's most recent book of poems is Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives (The Word Works, 2018.) Her literary interviews regularly appear in The Writer's Chronicle.
