Seneca

She unhinged a door

Inviting in light

Once it tired of glistening rivulets

After it wearied of swaying hill tops

It could dust through the attic west window

Collect itself in wooden hallway cracks

Set in row house refuge

Before night’s bacchanal


LA Felleman is an accountant in Iowa City. She organizes a writers open mic at the public library (or via Zoom during pandemics) and serves on the advisory council of Iowa City Poetry. Her first chapbook, The Length of a Clenched Fist, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

Previous
Previous

Things That Make Me Dizzy

Next
Next

The Stranger at the Funeral