Elizabeth Metzger is the author of the poetry collection The Spirit Papers, which won the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death. First Place winner of Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest, Metzger earned her MFA at Columbia University.

After the Imaginary Crime

An iPoem

by Elizabeth Metzger

What killed me when I left the room?


Even the birds at the window are guilty
of something. I cannot pretend
to name them.
People on couch
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