Cynthia White is a poet and a recipient of the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Denial

by Cynthia White

Our wills won’t
write themselves. See how
they languish on the old oak
sideboard, casual
as the crockery, the dashed-

off lists of daily tasks.
People on couch
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