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Poetry

Off-label liquor bottled water
Bottles of plastic soda with and without
Tops with and without piss inside bottles
Of Gatorade green beer bottles brown beer
Bottles 4.5-liter bottle of industrial solvents
Toppled white plastic electric fan unplugged
Three one-gallon milk jugs perforated top white
Plastic hamper bin ball of yarn neon
Yellow softball tennis ball rubber band ball
White basketball with and without air
Torn white plastic bag blue plastic bags
Gray plastic bags blue scraps of tarp
Styrofoam clamshells and crab
White wood ripped from a tree
White wood ripped from a house

 

 


Kami Enzie, a Vienna-born, New Orleans–raised queer Black writer, is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Work appears in Chicago Review, Common Place, The Glacier, Obsidian, Oversound, and The Poetry Review.

 

 

 

Photo by John Cameron on Unsplash

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