At the party (1)
Rachel Springer

posted Aug 11, 2009

You look at me like I’m a piece of punctuation you want to strip your poem of, perhaps the period

I’m wearing a V-neck sweater dress with a pendant

At your house, the first thing we do is strip, as if we can’t talk unless we’re naked

It’s that much of a habit

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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),” “After sex (1),” “After sex (2),” “At the party (2),” “At your house (2),” and “Because you're messy but not dirty.”