Capacity
You bury yourself in mudsand.
Your mouth the hole that’s left
To fill. Over the grave
Of you her red lips.
The leaving because if I didn’t leave you
I might hollow your lungs fill them with stones.
Evelyn Lauer holds an MFA in poetry writing from Texas State University. Her work has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Sentence, Denver Syntax, Blood Orange Review, Huffington Post, Education Week, and elsewhere. She lives in Chicago.