Aurora Magazine 2018

Nightcapping

B . C . F A R B O

Go,

Intrusive garland of diminished daylight, a once hot Bing Cherry Red end of a cigarette… now muted and ashy.

settle

Wrapped for presentation, tar paper packaged lungs, who breathe as a pretty gesture. What remembers, is a sweaty glass that convalesces, in a lonesome hand

in

with

Belly up to the dark, suck through chilled teeth, that old hurt

the name of someone you should have forgotten by now.

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