"Gathering" by Perrin Clore Duncan
Major Depressive Order, Or, by Tara E. Jay
a room filled with light.
Imagine: windows
caging spider web thick
as gauze. Ceiling conducting
the small sounds of small
invasive paws. Yellow walls.
A door knob hot to the touch
and unlockable, loose
in its socket. Air charged
crackling threat--
close eyes to it. Eyelids
leak the light in
red-hued as it hotly
hits the fine veins.
Sun-washed, I am glad
for my yellow walls.
Glad, I am honey dissolving
at the stir of a teaspoon--
or I am honey spun
honey thick
in my honey trap, see honey
catching and coloring light
sticky on the skin
on every squirming surface.
Imagine: windows
caging spider web thick
as gauze. Ceiling conducting
the small sounds of small
invasive paws. Yellow walls.
A door knob hot to the touch
and unlockable, loose
in its socket. Air charged
crackling threat--
close eyes to it. Eyelids
leak the light in
red-hued as it hotly
hits the fine veins.
Sun-washed, I am glad
for my yellow walls.
Glad, I am honey dissolving
at the stir of a teaspoon--
or I am honey spun
honey thick
in my honey trap, see honey
catching and coloring light
sticky on the skin
on every squirming surface.
Tara E. Jay is a poet and essayist from Indiana, currently living in the metro Detroit area. Tara recently earned her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Recent and forthcoming work can be found in Nashville Review, BOAAT Journal, Whiskey Island, The Journal, and elsewhere. She grew up in trailer parks.
Perrin Clore Duncan, from Oklahoma, graduated from DePauw University in May 2017 with a B.A. in Economics and Studio Art. Her work has been shown and published in Ireland, the United States, and worldwide through online publications. Perrin currently pursues her M.F.A. at the Burren College of Art in Ireland.
Visit her on instagram at @perrincloreduncan.art or at her WEBSITE.
Visit her on instagram at @perrincloreduncan.art or at her WEBSITE.
