Good evening ladies,
you should join us for drinks.
You should dance with us
so we can’t talk
about your job and forget it
when the words leave your mouth.
You should dance with us
so we can’t see your eyes
and ourselves
when we land in your gaze.
You should turn toward us
when we hold cigarettes
to let their small clip of fire
light your face.
And you should dance with us
around carta blanca tables
that remind us
of that diaspora feeling
which reminds us
of your face blown apart
into so many seeds.
Leah Tieger is a graduate of Bennington College, a freelance writer, and a fiction and poetry reader for The Boiler. Her work has not been published before, so Thank You for Swallowing can say they discovered her. She is okay with that.
Keep writing! I like how your simply painted a picture in the couple stanzas