Abjection
Emily Pinkerton



all heart:
a single lumen
lain bare, meant nil

the blunt thrum
of harm, bated briefly
as a lark

lake air, all rheum
humid as the mean rain
drew ever nearer

About the author:
Emily Pinkerton currently lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has previously appeared in LEVELER, Electric Cereal, Lemon Hound, Nimbus, 
Kaleidoscope, and The Bold Italic. On Twitter she's @neongolden.