Watch your spit, longing
again for the safety of a carcassed mouth,
slide lower and louder. Name the colors
scene in the mirror. Off white, bubble
of sliver, cream, pastel
trail along its surface.

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by David Greenspan

David Greenspan is the author of One Person Holds So Much Silence (Driftwood Press). He’s a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and earned an MFA from UMass Amherst. His poems have appeared in places like Bellevue Literary Review, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Narrative, and West Branch.