SPARK

Amy Souza
“I Wrapped You in Cellophane to Protect My Heart”
Response

Fossils
By Julia Laxer
Inspiration piece

fossils found in:
the abdomen of every woman
the roman candle of a man.
a psychotic disorder in
the slim-hipped ambivalence of
a 6-year-old child, affecting the moods
in lapping water
of swimming pools, everywhere.
*
the rumble of Little Rocky Run,
the tremble of Aspen Hills.
headlights sear sky,
scars hide well.
suburbanites locked and makeuped-on.
paved little carcass.
TV dinner carcrash.
*
(which may
alternate)
extreme highs
extreme lows
i poured pavement over you.
and how?
*
Springfield blueprint
jogging trail
derailed deer.
cutdown tree teenage
drivers.
nasty place.
bunny hole.
pot lot.
feels continually elated
chain link fence acid butterflies
the depressive phase of the
woodchip hush, such a
unfulfilled crush,
such a
belly-shirt compliment.
*
never tell
logs not tied.
i stood round
in a
circle
and
lifted some
body that wasn’t
mine.

“Fossils” originally appeared in print in the journal Small Po[r]tions, issue #3, and was also published online at
smallportionsjournal.com/2014/09/25/julia-laxer-fossils/

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