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Brittany Cavallaro

four plates before we had three          and the tumbler from Edinburgh I slipped          your new tie pin into          held the glass above one eye like a dirty fish          anyway it was the dish rack          wet I pressed my fist to my mouth          your hands cut your lips thinned          my own feet were bare you said          you’re crying          like I’d fallen and spilled into little tinsels of gold          delighted          my mother handing me ceramic foxes          salt cellars          scalloped plates too small to eat on          she saw the basement flat I’d taken alone or          that next year          some afternoon wet hands and us          so poor your red misery          eyedropped into every glass of water          extravagant like wine I ate I kept my head          through rolling heat          blood cylindered and sold          the summer nothing unfurled from its homes until          what was one plate, one cup          you eyeing me          satisfied a fork pulling at the piece before you          is it done          is it done %CODE_MORE_INTERVIEWS%