Relapse
KAITLINN ROSE
I like the sun better
bent in January’s
tilt, closer but colder.
I wonder how
close I could get to
anything without
touching it. How
desperate I am for
a burning –like termites
sculping the shapes
of their beloved
in the rotting wood.
Each time I begin
to count the days,
they drop back to zero.
Kaitlinn Rose is a writer and editor in New York City, where she currently resides. She recently completed her MFA from Columbia University concentrating in poetry and cross genre writing. Her poetry focuses on drug addiction and recovery, on which she also presented during her TEDx Talk in March 2017 on Long Island, NY.
