The Burden
He's: the amoeba glue
that binds together
a chair of toothpicks
straddled by this flat’s inhabitants,
except this resin is not solid,
is not set
by design must give a little
to bear the weight of us
We:
are the meters a skyscraper
must be able to lean and sway
with each gust, under
the influence of tonight's
tall, difficult winds
Jesica Carson Davis lives in Denver. Her work has appeared in The Laurel Review, Storm Cellar, Stoneboat, Zone 3, Columbia Poetry Review, and other places. She is an Associate Editor for Inverted Syntax literary journal, studied poetry at the University of Illinois, was the final Alice Maxine Bowie Fellow at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and won the Pilgrimage Press Tarantula Prize for poetry. She's currently working on several manuscripts of poetry and an ongoing project making poemboxes, which sculpturally interpret her writing. http://jesicacarsondavis.net.