The Short Form of Love (7)
Leave a commentJune 30, 2023 by The Citron Review
by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
I relish the way my hand sweats into his
and still he doesn’t let go.
He says three escalating exchanges of insult
can lead to divorce.
Only three, I ask?
Yes.
And after two, he stops talking.
Wendy Taylor Carlisle is the author of four books and five chapbooks, and is the 2020 winner of the Phillip H. McMath Poetry Prize. Wild Muse: Ozarks Nature Poetry, (Cornerpost Press, 2022) contains a chapbook-length selection of her work and a new edition of her book, Reading Berryman to the Dog, will be available in 2023 from Belle Point Press. Find more about her: wendytaylorcarlisle.com,
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