Polly is a writer and editor based in Alameda, CA. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in One Art, Wildscape Literary Journal, Nulla, Jelly Squid, 400 Words, Tellus, Monday Night, and others. She is the Poetry Editor at Nulla, a multimedia journal based in San Francisco. She founded the East Bay Dipping Society, an open water dipping collective, and holds an MFA in Poetry from California College of the Arts.
Tangible, a dessicated
tangerine peel you
thought was a California poppy.
I always see tap shoes
at Savers. Dare I?
Wake up
gasping, mouth gaping
under my greasy CPAP mask.
Some things are private.
Like licking
Knorr bouillon cubes
for that burning
salt sear. Tapping Kool-Aid powder
straight into your mouth. Allowable extremes.
Wiping one’s nose on one’s sleeve.
Wondering if this feeling
will last. The one
where fate tests you
like every five minutes.
(End with something
profound, relatable.) I can’t.
I can’t.
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