Pages
In the cast-iron city,
The sun was setting,
Apartment dismantled.
I walked the streets and avenues
sloughing off layers of skin,
ripping out pages.
I'd expected a laugh.
My old journals.
Earnestness something I'd left behind.
But 20 years later
Soft-bodied still.
Walled by concrete.
Rubbish.
Sara Oliver Gordus is a Baltimore-based writer and editor. Her writing has previously appeared in the Rumpus, Damfino Press, Nebo, and Radius Lit, among other publications.