Emily Spencer

HUMAN RESOURCES

In-

numerable pre-

ponderance

gold

filament cresting

the cremation

of joy

1 dae

1 day I’ll be greater

than rain-slicked

parts

as if a mum

orange

glory

an altar

to what would have been

had I been someone else entirely of what would have been if I had been someone else entirely of what would wet wood wet wood and innumerable forest the what where and how now whom tomb the wet wood as if I had been someone else entirely: MUVAH! MUVAAAH!

how perfect, master?

wig askew

from flogging yet perfected

aria

imperfect

EMILY SPENCER is the author of East Walnut Hills, winner of the Zone 3 Press Book Award. Spencer earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is an assistant professor at Miami University.