Dodo Eraser

i.
Scattered poems in the old Food Donkey
choked out by the rust belt, chain-link playground
between the bus and home. Somebody
spraypainted the town off its own map. All the lights
on the hill decide to speak
before the sun does. They have
lives to live and die
thriving.
ii.
One bench on an overlook
ghost vortexes & liquid pens
Rachel was here; ink smeared,
cigarettes by the hundred
to beached whales in the bay all going
to hell. The highlights
in her bible talk of salvation, but which would
she let save her from the drop?
Open arms or
the pavement?
iii.
Her impossible dream
of going where she cannot go;
An Idiot’s Guide to Space
on a dead man’s nightstand.
iv.
Have you
been paying
attention?
The cake was never a lie.
I’ve told you exactly what it is.

Leah Skay is an author from Delaware. Her work has recently appeared in BULL, 45th Parallel, The Quarter(ly), HAD, and others. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing from Ithaca College and is currently the Poetry Editor for The Bloomin’ Onion. Outside of her writing, Leah lives in Brooklyn, NY, and is a proud alumna of the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program. You can find all of her work listed at leahskay.com