SOS
“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
- Pretty Little Liars
Call me anonymous or atomic,
the way I gutter in and take hold.
I tendril, I fulfill. Send a text: XOXO,
signed apocalypse or aftermath –
kill, dressed to and will.
No one remembers underneath.
Call me ampersand or Avalon:
I’m all, nothing; have and hold.
What I lack I own the absence of.
Call me aurora, as in borealis –
as in if I break I can be everywhere
at once.
Heather Knox earned her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in decomP magazinE, Paperdarts, H.O.W. Journal, [PANK] and other publications. She is not worried about the impending zombie apocalypse because she grew up in the Midwest.
“Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
- Pretty Little Liars
Call me anonymous or atomic,
the way I gutter in and take hold.
I tendril, I fulfill. Send a text: XOXO,
signed apocalypse or aftermath –
kill, dressed to and will.
No one remembers underneath.
Call me ampersand or Avalon:
I’m all, nothing; have and hold.
What I lack I own the absence of.
Call me aurora, as in borealis –
as in if I break I can be everywhere
at once.
Heather Knox earned her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in decomP magazinE, Paperdarts, H.O.W. Journal, [PANK] and other publications. She is not worried about the impending zombie apocalypse because she grew up in the Midwest.