To the Chimmmney Sweep
Kristen Roach


Parasympathetic prroblemms:
alveoli avvoid airrr, ventricles
ciircummvent. Dermis draggs.
Found you iin the phonebook.
Brrush these burrnned briicks
craackk creosote ccatacombs.
Above all ellse, extinnguisssh
shaadowws of former flames.
Etch exactttly. Make mortaar
millky, sooothe trachea ache.
Bring brooms. Severral sizes.
Remove resiiduual soot, seeal
rraw roots of naaked nerrves.
Huurry: hearth hhhhesitated.
Incenndiary eventt imminent.

About the author:
Kristen Roach will earn her Master of Fine Arts degree from Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University in December 2014. She works as an MFA Specialist for the program and is Managing Editor of Jelly Bucket literary journal. She once held a yard sale that raised $3,000 towards friends' adoption of a baby girl, and hopes she has many more days like that.