Shianne Taylor’s Reviews > Hollow Bones > Status Update

Everyday you die again.
While I’m driving
Or shopping
Or pretending
to watch tv.
It hits me and I forget
How to breathe.
Somedays, I can sneak by
without you dying.
Just quietly skate
past it.
Tiptoe around it
like a mouse.
But most days,
it’s a bull
And I am wearing red.
—Nicole Berry