Hive Ave Fall2024 - Flipbook - Page 11
Hive Avenue Literary Journal
Poetry
Three for the New
Apartment
Matt Carmichael
1] we kept
hitting snooze
on the
blood moon
lunar eclipse
until the
sun woke
so black
eclipsed by
those pools
of spilled
All Fired
Up red
nail polish
up and
pushed through
the new
bedroom windows
and painted
the walls
gold and
said I
will never
let anything
come between
us
2] two weeks in
and the books
still in boxes
I’ll never forget
the look of
horror you gave
when you unpacked
the blue t-shirt
stained with mustard
3] on the
kitchen counter
the small
glass bottle
broke at
the neck
and the
smooth granite
never looked
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