little lamb
you are curled & sick
Monica Wendel
lately we've found ink spots
from rain or maps
or leaking photographs
meanwhile you, lamb
cough on the laundry
air conditioner hums
how to know
if we will ever know a living thing
besides you
who wanders in in morning
and cries until we wake
Monica Wendel is the author of No Apocalypse (Georgetown Review Press, 2013) and the chapbooks Call it a Window (Midwest Writing Center, 2012) and Pioneer (Thrush Press, forthcoming spring 2014). She lives in Brooklyn.