Jeremiah was | Your voice is

Amanda Auerbach

Amanda Auerbach currently lives in Boulder. Her book What Need Have We For Such as We was published by C&R Press in fall 2019. Her poems have also appeared in New Delta Review, the Paris Review, Colorado Review, and Kenyon Review. In the fall, she will start as an Assistant Professor of English at the Catholic University of America. Follow her @amanda_auerbach

Jeremiah was

put in the cistern but didn’t stay

in cistern. He was set free

said as one might say what is known

What is known to have happened

maybe just said. Either way

no more need be. He was set free

to go on and say, what he said

though it disturbs

those who have comfort

do not believe, what he said.

Disturbs those that keep, own

in the cistern

in mud not in water but thicker let he

Your voice is

sound of absorb between my thighs like a bell

between expanse of upper cow, bell manifests what makes

need gear

makes sound you have a tail you have to

pay the price

sop up the meal falls out at sides.

Meal is gross in sense of weight

of ground up corn. You have to really want it

wear within your cloth circumference

its sound. Prefer the feel?

This crinkling makes that female, fully person

would not choose.

Person not the source of what we’re here.

Issue 10.2