Spiral

by C.M. Dreibelbis

Isn’t the green cake, the custodial care, the sitting, standing, engaging, and eating when you are preoccupied about the size of the carp at the lake, the doors coated in red at the casino, the white pelican that didn’t return, the lockbox on my grandmother’s medicine, and my anger about the insistence on my dyed hair, which I dyed over a year ago with semi-permanent dye – aren’t these  

the shadows 

that become the monster 

so that we can be scared 

of something else

C.M. Dreibelbis is a writer from Duluth, Georgia that is currently based in Reno, Nevada. She wants to write a series of movie review poems, but it hasn't happened yet. She works with her friends on a poetry IG, @losduendistas, and is a huge fan of @landlinepoetryseries.