Dorothea Lasky
Wild

It’s like the world went wild

Wild with me

And I couldn’t stop it anymore

I was a really good poet

But more than that

I wanted you to not have to

Eat the pigs with the other ones

Baby honey baby

When I think of your head and breastbone

I go wild

You wear the red necklace

And I sweat sweat on the pavement

Still I think I will take the crushing pain

To whatever narrative

The men talk of

Whatever thing they mean

Means fire

I think I will wake and walk

And walk with you

Until they put me under

Until they put me under

I will cross the blue forest

With only you on my mind

Dumb spirit

Only you on my mind

You made me dumb

When I had only you on my mind

So I took the red necklace

Dumb spirit

There there

Always always always always

Always always always

Always on my mind

Found In Volume 43, No. 05
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About the Author

Dorothea Lasky is the author of  Milk, Rome, Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE. Her next book, The Shining, will be published by Wave Books in October, 2023. Her essay collection, Animal, was also published by Wave Books in 2019.