Meg Pokrass: Like she is

he is a wounded deer, she thinks at first 

he is disabled and might fall from an Autumn 

wind hair black & white eyes iceberg 

blue in dim light one foot planted 

on the other side this is why she tells

him her most embarrassing 

secrets one night he doesn’t like 

this Earth so much that he might live 

here and be ruined like she is he 

says & this makes her want to take 

him home & feed him everything 

she has left in her cupboards 

whatever it is she has learned 

to cook even a little bit well

Meg Pokrass’ new collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. She lives in Inverness, Scotland.