Julia Anna Morrison

TREATMENT

The night you get here, the Earth seems strange,
unmarried, out looking for a mate.

On the fifth floor of the mansion, my eyes close so
the moonflower opens in the peach-colored night.

An anesthesiologist tricks me to sleep. Below us,
rain paints the doors shut-white. I notice

my hands have begun to wrinkle. I hope the Earth finds a match
before it gets too old, run over by storms.

My night person carries our baby in his arms. Suddenly,
I am very bored but I am crying. The desire to kiss takes me over.
Someone’s unbuckled my arms.

I wait for treatment but the doctors are so busy with their cloths, their staples.
I don’t want to be consoled with a coat. I am a garden at the dead of winter.

JULIA ANNA MORRISON recently had work appear in Ploughshares. She lives in Iowa City and co-edits Two Peach.