We traintrack
We thunder to the dreaming men and I’m in the pool, loving
a man’s neck
We man’s neck and street,
meal a bloodless scuffle in hard light
What happens at night
Fear and the amok animal
Language in the kitchen with a scar
Lips we appled in Were There
and,
Not Married, Yet, to Honesty
To a rounded, blued-in room
Entree to woman’s house
This never happened, we sisters, we brinked
against red cars
Leave, she said
and I left my photo in her mouth
Anne Marie Rooney is the author of Spitshine (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012) and No Beautiful (Carnegie Mellon University Press, forthcoming 2018), as well as chapbooks from Birds of Lace and The Cupboard. Her poetry has been twice featured in the Best American Poetry anthology, and has been the recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, and others. Born and raised in New York City, she currently lives in Baltimore, where she is studying Expressive Arts Therapy.