Susanna Donato
Sessions (a playlist)
In session,
woman reads woman
free exercise
of the vote
senator from Utah
picks
his nose
I shuffle:
whether
you’re Donald
Trump or
an anarchist
dent-bumpered
cars stock gutters
bent steel
sticker-plastered
scrapes
I shuffle:
girls are
someone to tell
my problems
to girls are
look at them where
is the
celebration?
a gutter-pumpkin
beneath a tire
not a pumpkin
a squirrel
so fat I laugh
fat as decapitation
pregnant squirrel
naked worm-babies
in fat squirrel-belly
squirrel compelled
to love them
not love
feed, guard, grow
helpless
we love
our own skin
I shuffle:
What is right
in my life
I get drunk
every night
I shuffle:
Rip her to shreds
She gets up
from all fours
Rip her up
She gets up
She gets up
Susanna Donato is a Denver-based writer whose poems have appeared in Entropy and Columbia, and essays have appeared in Proximity, Okey-Panky, Blue Earth Review, and elsewhere. Learn more at www.susannadonato.com or on Twitter @susannadonato.
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