VINYL POETRY

Volume 8, August 2013

BIRDIE
Katy GunnView Contributor’s Note

Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at the Four Corners, the heart of the American Southwest.

I tell him we’ll come back for camping with roots in our backs. We will lie rock-ribbed and heavily. The earth beneath our back will be still and when we shift it will scratch like fingernails. He might say you can feel the earth moving like we’re on the sea and it will become clear the lying has gone too far and we should sleep or have sex or another unmoving thing.