keep it safe the book says
in the dark in a warm box quiet
until the battered body
knows itself again
then hold the terrified heart
in the palm of your hand
only
long enough
to let it fly up into
darkness, leaving you
to wonder always
if you got it right
K. T. Landon is the author of Orange, Dreaming (Five Oaks Press, 2017) and received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Spillway, North American Review, Narrative, and Best New Poets. She is a reader for Lily Poetry Review.