Limbo’s Child

My girlfriend has a girlfriend

as pigeons flee the roost

Pronouns crying God knows what

knots are coming loose

 

I was my girlfriend’s boyfriend

when lines unblurred defined

My love abeyant, Limbo’s child

—left here misaligned 

 

(Villanova University: June, 2022)

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