you heard the story
of the hornet and the spider
christ let's hang our necks
overboard we can be flowers
fury disguised as sweetheart
little mouthed dolls you can borrow
bright banana peels
on the actual sidewalk
the key is to buddy up
with the bastard sighs inside you
howl up some paradise where
a black hole bellows into a canyon
weaving all wronglike
toward the water
how the morning alleges
again yes again it can't prove us
an uh–huh for the goddamn
a punch in the weather
I hear the river's
divorced from its bed
the sky's armed with clouds
imagine that'd be nice
onions for sale roadside
Stephanie Goehring is co-author, with Jeff Griffin, of the chapbook I Miss You Very Much (Slim Princess Holdings, 2011/13) and author of the chapbook This Room Has a Ghost (dancing girl press, 2010). She lives in Austin, Texas, where she is on the advisory council for the visual art & literature website Conflict of Interest. Find her online here.