Creature Report

 It's good for your body to sleep, even thoughit's all going by so painfully fast. I'm inmy burrow alone thinking of you, wonderingwhat to say to all the folks back home. "Hello,"I'd say, gesturing toward the gulch, "thisisn't what I'm supposed to remember." I'ma huncher, studious and lacking. All morningI perform checking behaviors in my dream,making dishes from dried leaves pulled fromthe car door. Nostalgia as poison and balm,that would be my subtitle if I had onefilm on my resume that could help you understand. ____Todd Colby is the author of six collections of poetry, including Tremble and Shine (Soft Skull Press, 2004), Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Poems (Soft Skull Press, 2003),Flushing Meadows (Scary Topiary Press, 2013) and Splash State (The Song Cave, 2014).Joanna Penn Cooper is the author of The Itinerant Girl's Guide to Self-Hypnosis (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014) and What Is a Domicile (Noctuary Press, 2014). More information can be found at http://www.joannapenncooper.net/