3 Poems by Sophie Kearing

1

landlines, answering machines, and sandra bullock

on thursday night

i was watching premonition

on netflix

my nostalgic side was like

can we go back

to the days of

landlines

if you weren’t home

their calls weren’t known

there’s something so

angsty but

right

about that

answering machines

you’d wait on bated breath

to hear the words they left

there’s something so

pathetic but

sweet

about that

sandra bullock

if she was starring, damn it sold

now everyone just thinks she’s old

there’s something so

typical but

fucked

about that

and then I was like

what are these thoughts

bitch, i need my iphone

so I can

send shitty texts

never check my voicemails

and rarely watch a movie

from 2007

2

ire

i rose trembling through

wet earth and skinny roots

vibrating with ire

that i saved just for you

3

you and your mom

you and your deflating mother

writhe over my bed

two gray and fading specters

wishing you had wed