bouquet of black flowers
my heart-child cuts & cuts
a paper garden
to lie down in sweet lack
scentless heads adrift
in an ancient myth of wind
clap your hands in threes
& say you believe in petals
carved from dead trees here
where belief is both soil & seed
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.