Next Day

The cup in your hand that looks like a hand feels to your fingers just like a cup your fingers much like your fingers the dry pads flatten and grip the liquid just like the liquid always with its little sunlit pails like always you bring it close in both hands like always you drink when you can’t see

 
Molly Tenenbaum

Molly Tenenbaum’s books are Now and By a Thread. She was a 2007 Hedgebrook resident, and is the recipient of a 2009 Washington StateArtist Trust Fellowship. She also plays Appalachian string-band music, and her CD is Instead of a Pony. She lives in Seattle and teaches English at North Seattle Community College.

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