Johanna Evenson
Lips
A pair of Botox lips
making their way through the crowd
just ahead of the woman they are attached to.
Painted a shade of deep red
ready to make expensive
and self-confident statements
The Aquarium
I press my forehead to the glass
of my portable sea:
A square foot of water
in my living room
chiseled out of the the ocean
like a block of ice
hosting a tiny shipwreck
that set sail in the pet supply store
and sank upon arrival in my tank
among fish who know nothing of nets
reels or hooks, but who might know something
about lives gone down the drain.
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