
BRIAN FRANCIS | Three Poems
#blacklivesmatter Dear Reader Who invited who into this room Each threshold posits We are just passing through Strangers at the foot of the bed Radiant diamondmouth scowls Beauties covered in riverwater The discoball glitches The service starts & the stars go Missing The masquerade Wildflowers pressed into pages Before expulsion from the garden We were dressed to go dancing Keepsakes dog-eared pages & our teeth marks Change my name To the one tha