even the girls with the black frame glasses and white wings
like hearts after steps, there wouldn’t be that breathless sense
even we old secularists whose agnostic grammar beats the video clerks’
of having a pen so perilously close to the face
simply will not see movies where someone gets shoved into a mirror
if the moon weren’t too near.
anymore!
— excerpt from ‘black frame glasses,’ starred wire, by ange mlinko
