Begin with error,

misspoken word, mistaken test. All error birthed inside though not self. Proxy to organ, kidney perhaps, filtering toxins. Often communal on a bench, lattice worked wood, fingers laced.

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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.