Up too late with a mouthful of feathers.
Alone with the sheets shoved
to the end of the bed. Hot. Lost.
What ghost have I fallen for?
What ghost would fall for me?
I am no one’s idea of flight.
I would crawl across
this darkened floor. I would do anything.
My hands are a church. Bed. Nest.
Here. I will let you rest.
Header photograph © S. Schirl Smith.
Amorak Huey is author of the poetry collections Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress, forthcoming in 2021), Boom Box (Sundress, 2019), Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank, 2018), and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015), as well as two chapbooks. Co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018), Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.