Nora Claire Miller

CHAPTER 27

so I became unrealistic and thought of days
of how life on earth was a vanishing experiment
in deciding or pointer fingers, as the videos
next door yell into their beers or their cooking,
LIFE ON EARTH IS INTOLERABLE! so acting
becomes dangerous, as does cooking, each of us making
our own omelettes, in our own apartments,
every sunday, here on earth. they say life on earth
is a big disappointment. but I can tell you
all the teeth I have: incisor. incisor. premolar. incisor.
molar. premolar. molar. incisor. molar. premolar.
incisor. premolar. premolar. canine. canine.
incisor. molar. incisor. premolar. canine. molar. molar.
molar. premolar. molar. incisor. premolar. canine.

NORA CLAIRE MILLER is a poet from New York City whose work appears in Bat City Review, Gigantic Sequins, Hobart, Tagvverk, and TYPO, and whose chapbook LULL (2020) was the winner of the 2019 Ghost Proposal chapbook contest. Miller earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.