Natalie Co
Natalie Co is a writer living in Montreal. She recently graduated from McGill University, where she was co-president of McSway Poetry Collective and an editor for Scrivener Creative Review. Her work has been published in Scrivener Creative Review, SQUID magazine, and The Imagist.
17 Benadryl Aubade
How many more Benadryl until lover comes a-wooing through the roof. The wolves yipping behind the izakaya dumpsters bluer than moon whipping by. Ears roving an orbit around black asphalt. Night scraps. Cold kitchen oil the wanting darker than before gauzier and steelier and all the more woolen. She came twiggily saying it must be soon, now. And here it comes turning a horizon greyer than a sofa folding out its legs. Sweet carpet tasselling into two undreaming bodies. Greyer than wings making their shadows long over the one way lanes. One more Benadryl until the pollen falls all at once and the birds come piercing in the layers of streetlamp scattering up the concrete churn turning and turning. Intergalactic priest never felt so solid. Nocturnal trucks echoing up against the window ledge resting rings and bracelets silver as an eye. So solid so solid solider than velvet. No crumble like a rug falling from the seventh floor. No swoon like the room in a girl. How many more Benadryl until the floor
is to its brim and warehouse walls spindle in. Girl of the year chirping on the chain link. Grassy fractured
asphalt. No scratch like blades pulling their dew. One more Benadryl the rays are thudding through.
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