Monica Fambrough–BLUE TRANSFER

Excerpt:

A Shelter

                       be a flower, be a bathtub
                       —James Schuyler 


delicate blue transfer
the little life
I bring with

light

everything it
passes through
it passes through
beautifully

even styrofoam

I will cling
to a ritual
until it is all
that is left

my wedding ring
thin
as a mint

I feel like that star
that is so far away
it is making me cold

don’t take me to a shelter

don’t put me in a home

I can tell when anything
is crying

little blue dog
where are you now?

I searched for you
on shelves

in dusty bins
and on the internet

but you live
on the side
of a cup

no one bothers
to describe

Monica Fambrough is the author of the poetry collection Softcover (Natural History Press) and a chapbook, Monica Fambrough, available in German translation from Sukultur. She lives in Marietta, Georgia.