drinks

I wish I could drink coffee
or maybe gin
something to buffer my brain
from its reality
or delusions
release the house-
fly
from the spiderweb
startle the deer
which flees
the duck
which flies
toward the blind

instead I drown in water
which flows through
leaves me desiccated

Joanne Corey is the author of Hearts (Kelsay Books, 2023). Living in Vestal, NY (USA), she is active with the Binghamton Poetry Project and Grapevine Poets. With the Boiler House Poets Collective, she participates in annual poetry residencies at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.