one frozen rainbow margarita

on an empty stomach

busy night market in chill october air

numb sticky sugar fingers

heavy shoulders

hold my hand after I put my gloves on

you drive us home

hand on my thigh

only one way through

isthmus traffic

 

it’s hard to take a picture

of something so far away

with a phone camera

through a car window

you laugh and tell me 

            stop trying to steal 

            pieces of nature

so I stare at the gibbous moon

huge behind silver clouds

and try not to blink

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Jordan Hanson lives with her cat Ravioli in Wisconsin. You can find her on Instagram and Twitter @jordanehanson and read her poem “Altar” in the Plant People edition of Plants & Poetry Journal.