ice storm, power outage, rear window & Eggs, by Kylie Ayn Yockey

ice storm, power outage, rear window

water weight too much to bear / limbs snapping like bone like brittle like a bite / fall or bellyflop 
or widow-make onto an suv that’s not mine / but i’m watching / waiting for the other to drop / 
any awake late like me / candlelit and torched and watching / waiting / moving cars / moving to 
car to charge / dead phones like mine / seen unto each other like for the first time / literally for 
the first time / smokers insomniacs new-parents nocturnals light-sleepers / every-day-like-it’s
doomsday-preppers / the howling dog who usually only howls during daylight / wind howling / 
​waiting / trees cracking like sleep-crusted eyelids / watching / just neighborly things

Eggs

Styrofoam carton menstrual cup, dime-a-dozen pink
tax There’s a warrant out for my womb now 
Felony-flavored edible underwear 
Thank god I’m not a mother and I can eat my
young Scrambled in a petri dish across state lines
Or fried with a red-hot coat hanger wire at home 
Have you heard the rooster’s call? 
Sitting on my egg like a toadstool 
Look me in the eyes and freeze

Kylie Ayn Yockey (she/her) is a queer creative with a BA in Creative Writing & Literature. Her work has appeared in literary publications such as Prismatica Magazine, Meow Meow Pow Pow, Glyph Magazine, honey & lime, Butter Press, and Capulet Mag. She's edited for Glyph, The Louisville Review, Ink & Voices, and is poetry editor for Blood Tree Literature. Her full publication history and art can be found at www.kylieaynyockey.com.