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.