Do you feel it?
That earth-shattering movement in your body?
Where are you right now?
And we go on and on and on
This and that
Have no bother
No knife to flesh
This is not the deluge
Full stop
People are suffering
Are you?
Where were you when you first found out?
That this life wasn't made for you?
Even though you were made in its image
This decorum is improper
The room moved around you
And you don't know the room
No longer do I want to participate at this dinner table
The hunger starts to hurt
Your verbose masculinity is a gaping wound
I ask the table
What shall pass and what will fall?
Rachel Niehorster is a musician, poet, gardener, and hedge witch residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
