ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Blue Renner is an MFA candidate at Lesley University hard at work on her first poetry collection. Published in the anthology Looking Back to Place, Connotations, The Journal News, and The Albuquerque Tribune, she currently writes from the Southeast. Blue hopes to find her way back to New York soon.

Mortar and Pestle

By Blue Renner


Be my mistress.

Talk me through the snow

storm while I walk home

cold-ached. Listen to me.

I left my boots

under your bed, bones

too, because they leaned

damp with want against

my skin. I always try

to get to you. Your lights dim

my wits, my feet jam asphalt.

I carry a book to distract/

remind me of the way

your coffee smells when I walk

away from night and late day

break. Thread a needle.

Try to make a make a quilt

to cover us, until we can live

again, rain and couture

dirtying our legs.



Published July 2010