She’s a Pill


            Oh, dangling long sleeves in the Mercurochrome.
            Parking her punch on her knees.
 
     I’m not a joiner.
 
            In the night, a visitation, small as a thumb,
            enters the sealed house and ascends.
 
     Mother wouldn’t have stood for that long. Drippy-drooping around
on heels. Leaving the blue cheese out.
Copyright Credit: Susan Wheeler, “She’s a Pill” from meme. Copyright © 2012 by Susan Wheeler. Reprinted by permission of University of Iowa Press.
Source: meme (University of Iowa Press, 2012)