You aren't in this movie / Letitia Trent

  Letitia Trent's work has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, The Black Warrior Review, Fence, Folio, The Journal, Mipoesias, Ootoliths, Blazevox, and many others. Her chapbooks are Splice (Blue Hour Press) and The Medical Diaries (Scantily Clad Press). Her first full-length poetry collection, "One Perfect Bird", is available from Sundress Publications. She was the 2010 winner of the Alumni Flash Writing Award from the Ohio State University's the Journal and has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and the MacDowell Colony. They are Coming For You, Barbara As a child, I wasn't frightened. They came slowly, stumbling, soft-brained, flesh bloating purple away, but nothing more. The movie dead move at a crawl, and so the victims have to stand still or fall into their outstretched arms. It once was funny, the woman limping in her Sunday pumps as they lumbered slow behind her. But now I understand. Multiply them. No matter how slowly, they are coming.