"fugitive: clothesline" by Lisa Roullard

my clothes snap-talk

at the wind

saying what i still can’t

just flap it out

pant leg and sleeve

pant leg and sleeve

maybe it’s easier to speak

without the body

a shirt cracks

the truth

the line doesn’t give

Lisa Roullard's poetry has appeared in various magazines as well as on buses with Poetry in Motion. Her chapbook, An Envelope Waiting, was published in 2020. She resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, where as often as possible she walks in the rain.