Meghan’s Reviews > Helen of Troy, 1993: Poems > Status Update

"she's waiting for the thing that's coming, the slow creep of movement over the skin, like standing in a puddle with long jeans, feeling the damp climb higher by degrees. she thinks she will be able to see the change in the mirror in the bathroom, and then later in the mirror in the bedroom, and later still in the dark glass of storefronts and car windows..."

my favorite so far bc what girl hasn't had this moment?