We keep entering what we think are gates, and the next patch has small mammals chewing. Crisp but I need more vitamin. As the series years itself the oddest bouncer hinges on a gate not yet built; task list tacked nowhere, the wind up ourselves.
Vanessa Couto Johnson (she/they) is the author of the full-length poetry books pH of Au (Parlor Press, Free Verse Editions Series 2022) and Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books, 2018), as well as three poetry chapbooks. Most recently, Vanessa's poems have appeared in The Shore, The Broken City, Vagabond City Lit, and Rough Cut, among others.
