The Fourth Wave : 24 Poems | Katharine Diehl

 Katharine Diehl lives in NJ and works in education research. She’s been published in journals online and in print. Her first micro chap is available from Typewriter City. Find her at @kelizabetta."   The SuicidesThose remaining waited the winter in their furs, in the forest. They refusedto spare the wood to heat water for a bath,or cold deferred the action. Even the good-looking men attempted it.There wasn’t a man left in the city, at a certainpoint, that hadn’t tried for it. After a while theycounted as endangered. The government tried certain initiatives, giving them dogs,for example, or giving them women. The womenhoped the initiatives would fall through from lack of funding. That they would stay in the woods, and alone.