Hallie Fogarty

Love Poem as Inhibition

I see you in the roadkill, the rumination, in the pacing and prodding. I see you in line-edits and dirty lenses, in pretense and recess. I see you in poor grades, poor taste, wet faces, in plastic  crystals and frozen twisters. I see you in tenderness, in tensity, in myopic menageries, in morose renditions, in pity petitions. I see you in tricksters and trepidation, in tremendous occasions. I see you in illuminosity, in imminent processing, in periodic puppetry and sweat and serious sedation. I see you in arduous education, in placation, in second locations, in power trips and power plants. I see you in seedy seminaries, in planetaries, in purposes and porn blogs. I see you in UFOs and undercover cop shows. In chess games and chimneys and incorrigible correspondence. In coronations and corruption and complicated pregnancies, in pearly whites and tankinis and dirty tan lines. In fingernail and magazine clippings, in reply-all emails and rotten tornadoes, in tenacity and tumultuous treehouses. In neediness and mind-numbing masses, in ruined records and marred melodies. In vibrators and vodka sours, in reticence and replication.

Hallie Fogarty is a writer, visual artist, and poet from Northern Kentucky. She is currently an MFA poetry student at Miami University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Pegasus, Poetry South, Juven Press, and others. She can be found on Twitter @halfogarty.