After sex (1)
Rachel Springer

posted Aug 11, 2009

There's no TV; there’s just a single mirror in your bedroom

I see in it a shaved animal, its trembling head (the fear is well-defined, unthreatening)

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Rachel Springer is a recent graduate of the University of Arizona's MFA program. She lives and works in Tucson, AZ. Her work is forthcoming in Versal.

We’ve published six more poems by Springer: “At your house (1),” “At the party (1),” “After sex (2),” “At the party (2),” “At your house (2),” and “Because you're messy but not dirty.”