Updating to Hardwood by Kaitlin Neal

The carpet  
yellows  

a fly whistles  
to the memories  

stuck  
in the  
shag  

A body 
folds up at the seams  

like dough 

beneath a cotton towel  


Rice pudding sours  
lone  
on the oilcloth  

Purple marker 

your budding signature  

frames  

the removal  
of the  
​
carpet 

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About Kaitlin Neal
​Kaitlin Neal is an Edmonton-based queer poet and dissolving form on floral bedsheets. They have been published in several magazines and are releasing their first chapbook, "rabbit, head, gut," this year with Shadow and Sax Press.