Watching The Ring & Wondering Why The Whole Movie Is Blue

by Reese Sterling Alexander

My bedroom never belonged in the barn & yet
I think I was born there: wordless and closest
To the opened eye of a horse. I don’t create
The horrors in front of me but I think I was born there.
Put paper and pen in front of me, I’m just a child. I cry
I yell I stay where I’m placed I die
when they cannot see me as good

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Reese Sterling Alexander is a poet and, this week, non-smoker.

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