here is your perfect blue thought
your mouthful of blues
no one told you to reach
for the sugar in the cupboard
by climbing the knives of your longing
memory fills in
the blank spaces
with the colors it chooses
house shoe bicycle iris you
if you mumble
flowers mean I miss you
when you attic your words
sometimes they stay
condensation clouding the glass
open the window when it rains
Amy Bilodeau
Amy Bilodeau’s work has appeared in Connotation Press, Monkeybicycle, Sweet, and elsewhere. Her full-length manuscript was a finalist for the 2017 Four Way Books Levis Prize in Poetry. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana.