Your silver shadow
leans cocky against
the bed. Our shadow
selves shuffle. I don’t
wake to the same one
I last bedded with.
M. Mack is the author of three forthcoming collections including the chapbook Imaginary Kansas (dancing girl press, 2015). Mack writes, teaches, and sews in Virginia where ze co-edits Gazing Grain Press. Find hir at mxmack.com.
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Melancholy Hyperbole 