
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
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.