Sonnet

A body
longing

how long?
to be there

by 10am
FedEx

promise
a plastic box

like for recipes
or receipts

pouring
like cake

mix in
the rain.
 

 
JT Welsch‘s books Orchids (Salt, 2010), Hell Creek Anthology (Sidekick, 2015), and Flora & Fauna (Thin Ice Press, forthcoming 2020). He is also co-editor of Wretched Strangers: Borders Movement Homes (Boiler House, 2018) and author of The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry (Anthem, 2020).