Catherine Hess

IT WAS MY FIRST TIME

A silver Chevy—
                            the submarine
 
An abandoned parking lot—
                                             the ocean
 
Me—
         s u b m e r g e d


Catherine Hess (she/her) is a Queer American poet whose work has appeared in Tiger Moth Review, Dual Coast Magazine, and elsewhere. Her work is forthcoming in the Second BS Lit Anthology, and she lives in Arkansas.