Milkman

Yesterday

our veins ran with it

In an hour

anxiety will stick

like leeches on the brain

Right now

let’s invite the plaque

to settle in

clog our valves

with the milk of our marriage

Constrict

Conserve

Color

#22 of 30 Poems in November to benefit Center for New Americans. For Margaret's Play It Again prompt to the Real Toads featuring Bjorn's TIME TRAVEL