It’s my best thing. I offer coffee
and strands of broken light
untangled from the mare’s nest
of whatever the hell is wrong
with you and why am I just
learning about this now?
I agree with the guiding principle
only if it smooths the afternoon
into a shape I can carry.
If you peek under the wire
you will find me married
to my rubber nose.
As I said, I suffer
and I’ve been wrong before.
Published in Open Arts Forum on .
Sara Clancy is a Philadelphia transplant to the Southwest. Her chapbook Ghost Logic won the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Editors Choice Award. Among other places, her poems have appeared in Off the Coast, The Linnet's Wings, Crab Creek Review, The Madison Review, Misfit Magazine, Avatar Review and Verse Wisconsin. She lives in the desert with her husband, their dog, two ordinary cats and a psychotic cross-eyed one.
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