Slow, Sloppy and Brilliant

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by Cassandra Gillig

Searching for you
in such large hell, I am
Robert Lowell with breasts
and a heart.

I want to mourn the
color of this river; it will
be where we first find that
small, white crosses are

buoyant in reflected
verdigris. Expansive, we
occupy January.  Someone
(maybe me) will use it

against us. Swaddled by
hotel room sheets, there is no
optimal word that functions
to describe my container.  

You are longing in this
sterile segregation. The tide
is blank and you are yielding.
I flood all dirt waters.

Dislocated second place,
my hands like borders. We
carry nothing through the
interim; in Camden, I elapse.

Cassandra Gillig is 19 and lives in Chicago.  She has chapbooks forthcoming from NAP and Love Symbol Press.  Ole, bitch, ole. She can be found at CassandraGillig.tumblr.com.

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