Devon Balwit
You seek reverie
but get chainsaw,
neighbors hard at work
to obliterate the moment.
How tempting to flare
like an ordinary match—
practice asks
that you turn inward.
Surprisingly,
it can be done.
Devon Balwit is the author of A Brief Way to Identify a Body (Ursus Americanus Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Poets Reading the News, The NewVerse News, The Ekphrastic Review, Peacock Journal, and more. For more of her poetry, reviews, collections, and chapbooks, visit her website, devonbalwitpoet.
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