Skirting a Table

Written By: Taylor Kovach

I’ve been eating less lately –

down to the spaces

zipped between little white lies

too full on

a held tongue’s spit –

spoiled rotten

by its own foul odor

washing away the unkempt,

the smudges still linger

Taylor Kovach is a disabled transgender poet residing on the banks of the Detroit riverfront. Kovach matriculated from Michigan State University. One can peruse their work in Reels: Cinematic Poetry, The Poetry Lighthouse, Pulse–voices from the heart of medicine, Literary Heist, and Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism & Translation.