Inertia
Sarah Goldfarb
–
I found myself
in los angeles
for halloween
a girl-ghost twisting in
the shade of palms
in the afternoon
don’t tell me
I didn’t look holy
that day:
arms straight above
my head
and consumption
in my eyes
I don’t invite coldness;
it just latches onto me.
but in the end
I make a shitty ghost:
conscious of solidity,
weak appetite for
return
not to mention
a torn sheet.
I’m not crazy about
the world being
magnified through
my floating body
but maybe it would
come out
soft focus
through my bones
like the shitty porn
I watched on my last
night as a 22 year old:
just women fucking
women on my
drifting rib cage until
the sun comes in.
Sarah Goldfarb is a 23 year old writer living in New York City. By day Sarah is a non-profit fundraising assistant but by night a poet/writer/wine overdrinker. Sarah recently had a poem published on adult-mag.com.
Photograph provided by Loni Jeffs.
