FANZINE

Iowa

Crawling on you in your sleep, I squeeze
insects between my fingers and our sheets.
Summer I’m afraid enough to kill.
I take out the garbage, check your temperature,
rearrange the furniture, knead my knuckles
against your spine. I will write you letters,
fuck up the postage, show strange women
your photographs in different houses.

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_{Stephanie Goehring is co-author, with Jeff Griffin, of the poetry chapbook I MISS YOU VERY MUCH (Slim Princess Holdings, 2011/13) and author of the poetry chapbook THIS ROOM HAS A GHOST (dancing girl press, 2010). She can be found online here.}

_{Photo: Louise Mathias}