Our bracken pool tides
in the small of your back.
I move the earth
or the earth is you or⠀⠀⠀
the earth moves us
thick in the shadow-dark air.⠀⠀⠀
This once gravity
is the law we hope never to escape.
Joseph Mains studied at the University of California Riverside, Arizona State University, and the University of Arizona, where they completed their MFA, and is the author of the chapbooks Jojo the Dogface Boy (Gramma, 2017), A Portable Model of How Memory Works (Alice Blue, 2013), Poumpoum Tralala (Poor Claudia, 2010), and To Live Don’s Life: A Film in 15 Creams (Scantily Clad Press, 2009). They live in Portland, OR, where they co-curated the reading series Bad Blood and edited Octopus Magazine.