plums melt on linens
washed
just yesterday
the stain
is shaped like her face
she thinks
a fan moves the air
but she has no desire
to rise
she cannot tell
her daughter
about her bed
about her cold
pillow & sweat-
drenched sheets
or how figs
are the only food
worth eating
in august
when all she really wants, really,
is the taste of ash
Livia Meneghin is the author of the chapbook Honey in My Hair and a Review Writer for GASHER. Her writing has found homes in The Academy of American Poets, BOAAT Journal, Entropy Magazine, Tinderbox, Thrush, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA at Emerson College, where she is now Affiliated Faculty and Program Coordinator for EmersonWRITES.
