Willa Carroll
SCORE FOR CLANDESTINE BODY
Meet me behind the mountain | press me against a mineral seam | I can’t sing | swallowed my tongue | when I was a bird | sick beak | greasy wings | When I see you | I nod like a bell | smile like a cracked hull | Come closer | your voice will live in the nautilus | of my ear to the wall | your pearl in my throat | I’ll be the river under your floor | burning with dioxin & time | Night is a hive | we report back to | depositing toxic dew | On the bed’s proscenium | we play the parts we were born for | paragon of animals | honey receptacles