by Reese Bentzinger
threads of yarn spilling
from one’s mouth, echoing
my sweater’s unraveling
Sweater Season
Decaying leaves change
to tangerine, crumbling
into chunky wool sweaters and bone
-colored needles. As they fill my screen,
I vow this season to knit sweaters
instead of shopping from Shein. I fall
into panicked news stories, articles
about the Medicis and faded tapestries
weaving with images of assembly lines, mechanical grinds
the sound of aesthetically pleasing mornings
featuring coffee and crimson sweaters, diluted
to blood red as medieval peasants occupy my screen
threads of yarn spilling
from one’s mouth, echoing
my sweater’s unraveling.
The World is Ending, So I Visit Buzzfeed
scroll past headlines collecting dust
and bleached 2016 election signs, relics
of a time when Hilary Clinton
and cheap Amazon finds could save everything
before a generation of women were laid off
by shatterers of glass ceilings
illusions scattering like pixels
across a memory-wiped screen
© Reese Bentzinger
Reese Bentzinger is an American poet based in Madrid, Spain. Her work has been published in Livina Press, Tiger Leaping Review, and other publications. You can find her on Instagram @reese_b_.
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