Mud / Brooke Ellsworth

  dancing girl press, 2015$7.00   Brooke Ellsworth is author of the chapbook, Thrown (The New Megaphone).  She currently lives in Queens, NY and teaches at Parsons School of Design.  For more information please visit: brookeellsworth.tumblr.com.       When you were in jail and nobody could find you the old woman upstairs had a terrible fall on the way down a morning free of knowing a dream of where she was I take her mail and the steps as digging a trench I assure her nightly the mornings are unseasonably warm I am now familiarizing myself with the warmth tethered to this world ashamed to say I lifted my hand up its dress and I felt the body in my body start the balloon what's your name I build up the audacity to ask her        ***