Stevie Curl

I Ghosted Your House In Hopes of Encouraging You

you shot me
in the yard

sits a house a dark color
of course

there in a way unlikely

a mistranslation

a list of things

I need and you’re preoccupied

out loud your name means

a frightening thing

each time there is more

flesh on you like a surprise

I have a feeling at close range

a dark color each time

there is more flesh

and then

Stevie Curl lives in Pittsburgh, PA. She received an MFA in Poetry from Columbia College Chicago and her work has appeared in several journals, but not for several years.