Leah Dodd
hi-vis
we’re laughing uncontrollably
eating bread in the bathroom
she’s magic in a gingham dress
and my hair’s up like antennae
these wild nights live
in the space between us
she cures the blues on the back of a raindrop
down a tobacco alleyway while they
dance to electro-pop
at the side of the pool
their wet white flares
like sticky vanilla
wearing sunglasses indoors
at four in the velvet morning
we invite the devil to breakfast
for mi goreng and chocolate milk
soon I’ll be spilling gin on the sofa
climbing like silver lining
through the cracks of blackout blinds
praying to see her in the next blue moon
Leah Dodd has previously been published in Re-Draft and the New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology, and is currently studying poetry at the International Institute of Modern Letters alongside a BA in English Literature.