Two Poems by Peter Schireson (poetry, ’17)

An excerpt from “It Has a Wish,” one of two poems by Peter Schireson (poetry, ’17) published at Connotation Press:

It Has a Wish

It has a wish, she says.
When a skirt has a fold like this,
small and unintended in the hem, it means
it has a wish.
I bend over and straighten it,
trying to conceive what more,
beside brushing against her legs,
her pale green skirt,
sheathed about her, folded,
could be wishing for.

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