Joshua Edwards
Albion
The woman sitting beside me
is so beautiful that I cansmell my girlfriend, and she
lives in Australia. Whole daysgo by without a single sin:
days of dogsigns, pigeon shit,husks of the corn islands
lining my worn pockets. Iflove were a question, I’d do
my homework, but it’s a plantand not all of us are born with
green thumbs. In fact, I’mtold, most of us are born beneath
heat-lamps: screaming, resisting,hoping that the doctor will
do something with that knifeother than cut the cord that
binds us to our mother’s belly.