Deborah Allbritain
Dear Gratitude
The water here is rising and more
Drano did not work— dangerous, too clogged but thanks for
the doors in Paris also Amazon returns. Once I basted
spareribs which were highly praised, yes and thanks for the insidious
bridge of if only— I give up. And that code unlocking his red
curls, shoulder blades and my pearls snapped from the necklace in a dark hotel room
Life is short and I am still thirsty and is there no man
good enough to bend one knee and say please, please will you marry me?
I adore you, gratitude. I mean it. And this winter rain causing
my fall on the driveway
spilling coffee down my wrist, the bag of groceries breaking.
All the crusty dishes are piling up. I’m heading down the river.
Deborah Allbritain’s work appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Ecotone, Greensboro Review, Plume, and Potomac Review. Her poems have been finalists in the Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest, the Wabash Poetry Prize, the Bellingham Prize for Poetry, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, and the Comstock Review Poetry Contest.
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The water here is rising and more
Drano did not work— dangerous, too clogged but thanks for
the doors in Paris also Amazon returns. Once I basted
spareribs which were highly praised, yes and thanks for the insidious
bridge of if only— I give up. And that code unlocking his red
curls, shoulder blades and my pearls snapped from the necklace in a dark hotel room
Life is short and I am still thirsty and is there no man
good enough to bend one knee and say please, please will you marry me?
I adore you, gratitude. I mean it. And this winter rain causing
my fall on the driveway
spilling coffee down my wrist, the bag of groceries breaking.
All the crusty dishes are piling up. I’m heading down the river.
Deborah Allbritain’s work appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Ecotone, Greensboro Review, Plume, and Potomac Review. Her poems have been finalists in the Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest, the Wabash Poetry Prize, the Bellingham Prize for Poetry, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, and the Comstock Review Poetry Contest.
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