Crate: The MFA Journal at UMass Amherst

A Space to Exhaust

April 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The oily neighbor woman
Wants me allied.

Her moans in the back
Hallway shuffle in
Under the door and bully
My attention.

I tell her yes, her indignation
At the sad state
Of our dumpster is sane,
Righteous, calculated.

The growling never goes away.
It mosses my home, grows
Insolent and bushy over my escape.

Emily Renaud

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