Current Issue: Fall/Winter 2011

Against Desire  
Sophie Klahr

I dream there is a minnow in my body.

I dream its jaw unhinges on my eggs

and swallows every ghost.

I wake just as the meds are wearing off.

My anxious dreaming, Doctor? A nightmare?

I wouldn’t call it that. I wouldn’t call.

The day rolls sideways, stumbles, begins again.

I scold the being crying on the train

(my dumb translucent self reflected):

But that was what you wanted, wasn’t it?      Wasn’t it?

Above the city in a rented home,

a silence fills the glass I drink, and drink.

 

Sophie Klahr is the author of the chapbook ________ Versus Recovery (Pilot Books). Recent work appears, or is forthcoming, in Lo-Ball, Oh No Magazine, Ploughshares, The Normal School, The Offending Adam, and TYPO. She serves as an assistant poetry editor for Gulf Coast and is the chief poetry editor for Gigantic Sequins.