Landscape with Trailer

She sits in the dark,
blows smoke
through the window.

A seam runs
along the back
of her shoulder
and down
her small breasts.

She pulls a pot
off the burner
and turns up the radio.

There are two worlds.
And a seam things pass between.

Into the pot, slow,
she pours the oil.

Outside the window
a tree bends like a violin
with no strings.

Jackson Holbert's work has appeared in Thrush, Vinyl, Muzzle, the minnesota review, and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. He currently lives in Waltham, Massachusetts where he is a student at Brandeis University and a poetry editor at the Adroit Journal.