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A brave dog will teach you to swim
and Jim will fix your furnace.
Song will wake the spiders
you have hidden in your sleep.
Your arms, lovers, long at the wrist
will wrestle with a hubcap.
Change dropped from another’s suit
will glisten if you keep it.
Eileen G’Sell teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, and is the author of the chapbook Euphoria Takes One for the Team.
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