Mallory Bass

Huevos rancheros for breakfast,

the colors red, white and yolk

the beans, chile, the tortilla

is to wrap, what am I trying to say

about yoking together and where

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I gave birth it seems

squatting on the bathroom floor,

to clothes. They came out

from me as if from a wash,

as if pushed by wind.

There were folds

that continued within myself.