[Don’t want to choose between love & surviving. Zoom out with / me, I’m scared distance isn’t enough. Don’t know when we went / from baby it’s ours to it’s all yours. Here we are, the grass / marrying itself into my denim. Don’t know when that became / an issue. Don’t want to wash you out, just want to do the / laundry. Trying to feel clean again. Don’t know if / water feels like concrete from fifty feet. Do know my / smaller hurts are building surface tension.]

 

Ellery Beck is a recent graduate of Salisbury University’s Creative Writing program. A winner of the 2019 AWP Portland Flash Contest and a Pushcart nominee, they are the Founding Interview Editor for The Shore Poetry and a Poetry Reader for Poet Lore. They have poems published or forthcoming in Passages North, Colorado Review, Zone3, Sugar House Review, Fugue and elsewhere. Ellery is also one of the co-founders of Beaver Magazine.