2 Poems by Zachary Cosby
Zachary Cosby
1
I need a whole year to blush
you barely brush my arm
sunlight slipping through a coat
a face glows itself bottomless
I thought you were somebody else
he frowns I feel it in my spine
like slow breathing before a fire
when I close my eyes I am elsewhere
2
once you bruised the season
your hand your chest sluggish
we do nothing this house drifts like wind
small bells speak the language of eardrums
my envy auctioned off to strangers
inwardness it wants to eat me
a body a melody a stream
less and less I tried to think
falling into bed every night
Zachary Cosby is a designer and bookseller in Portland, Oregon. Cave, his second chapbook, was published by Bottlecap Press in 2015.