“Delivery By Mouth,” by Lara Egger (Poetry ’16)

“Delivery By Mouth,” a poem by 2016 graduate Lara Egger, was recently featured in the Washington Square Review. Read an excerpt below:

Delivery By Mouth

Most weeks I’m accordion but I’d prefer to be harmonica.
My body language is easier to read with the lights turned off.
Accord and harmony are synonyms
for the parts of speech that leave a lump in my throat.
At the dinner party someone says,
Sorry for all this talk about pregnancy.
Wolves are in the water. Wolves are in the water
so the water better learn how to swim.

Find the rest of this poem here: https://washingtonsquarereview.squarespace.com/lara-egger