Impossible Motel Room 1A

Joshua Ware
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We face one another on either side of a motel bed. You remove your dress, the black fringed one you wear without irony to weddings, and a host of sparrows exits from the space between your breasts. They swirl about the room until I remove my shirt, nesting inside the hollow of my chest and padding it with wool from the comforter. A chorus of trills sounds from inside me, resonating through the bed between us and filling you with birdsong.

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Joshua Ware lives in Lincoln, NE where he is completing his doctorate in poetry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His first book, Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley won the 2010 Furniture Press Poetry Prize and was published this summer. He is the author several chapbooks, and his work has appeared in such journals as American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, New American Writing, and Quarterly West.