on a better, happier saint sebastian<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
across 2,821 miles we read howl together and say \u201cgod,<\/p>\n
what a shame he was a pedophile,\u201d as if we don\u2019t roll<\/p>\n
\u201choly, holy, holy\u201d over our tongues, cool marbles or<\/p>\n
a mouthful of cigarette smoke stolen on the stoop<\/p>\n
of a frat house while the wall at your back shudders with the strain of holding<\/p>\n
some EDM wordless anthem pulsing with a<\/p>\n
raw and preternatural desperation, a similar psalm<\/p>\n
when you think about it, to \u201choly, holy, holy.\u201d<\/p>\n
across 2,821 miles we watch reruns of cooking shows from 2016 and laugh<\/p>\n
at the same lines, hunch closer to the TV and mutter \u201cthat risotto is never<\/p>\n
gonna finish in time,\u201d as if we\u2019ve ever tried risotto<\/p>\n
which is atomically similar to us<\/p>\n
saying \u201cwe\u2019ll flip a coin for<\/p>\n
the bedroom with the bookcases,\u201d as if we\u2019ve ever had bookshelves of our own, as if<\/p>\n
i would ever take them all for myself even if i called a keen tails, but<\/p>\n
then i\u2019m sure you\u2019ll be tasting your first risotto off my wooden spoon.<\/p>\n
across 2,821 miles we post to the same pinterest board like<\/p>\n
middle aged mothers with bangs shorn crooked across our foreheads, only we<\/p>\n
call the practice \u201clamenting\u201d and it is full up with pictures of two girls<\/p>\n
a blond and a brunette<\/p>\n
cracking baguettes and studying hunched over the same french dictionary<\/p>\n
as if i made it past level two on duolingo, as if my tongue doesn\u2019t trip<\/p>\n
over \u201cnous sommes n\u00e9s pour nous trouver\u201d like i\u2019m trying to pray again, like i\u2019m<\/p>\n
soaking ginsberg\u2019s twisted \u201choly\u201ds in wine so i can swallow them easier than 2,821 miles.<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n
when i fall in love again i imagine it will be<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
something like a wildfire or maybe the blistered redwood<\/p>\n
curry paste stirred into coconut milk, making it blush<\/p>\n
lamia spotting hermes and thinking \u201ci\u2019m free i\u2019m free i\u2019m free\u201d<\/p>\n
crushed ice and the eloquent conversation it poses<\/p>\n
like hearing wowee zowee for the first time and especially \u201cgrounded\u201d<\/p>\n
the intrinsic potential of an eyelash<\/p>\n
peeling a clementine, wedging rind beneath your thumbnail and the two-day sting<\/p>\n
dad\u2019s old Lexus wheezing to an inexplicable start<\/p>\n
liquid smooth and miracle-flesh like galatea<\/p>\n
a night cool enough to sleep in socks<\/p>\n
one of those action movies: beautiful faces, enormously large<\/p>\n
the first sip of white wine and the burgeoning impulse to giggle<\/p>\n
juice spurting, coating eve\u2019s tongue, and the impulse to share<\/p>\n
twelve playlists with unhinged names (eating glass etc etc)<\/p>\n
ears that stick out a little too far<\/p>\n
guitar calluses and how they are like kisses or else vampire bites<\/p>\n
a cosmic shift in the alignment of my pelvis-spine-neck<\/p>\n
an extended forkful of still-steaming pasta<\/p>\n
a vegas hotel room: mirrored ceiling, heart-shaped mattress, lurid red, breath on my ear<\/p>\n
fall\u2019s last leaf<\/p>\n
the first sun-dried apricot like leather and august and candlesmoke<\/p>\n
resplendent like crepuscular rays caught hanging over a hilly horizon<\/p>\n
or everything i\u2019ve ever touched turning to dog shit in my cupped palms.<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n
Francesca Tangreti<\/strong> writes, “I am an English major and Creative Writing minor, class of 2022, siring from Clinton, New Jersey. 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