Confessional

Jamie Andersen Fields

for Philips

i can’t sleep

i left the stove on
in a house no one owns

& in the closet
dead horses decompose

a second time

& a tree bends from tension
instead of towards the sun

i put my other lungs
in a box under the bed
i thought if i lied long enough
rest would find me before she did

i was wrong
i was wrong

Jamie Andersen Fields (he/him) is a cyborg living in the Pacific Northwest. His debut chapbook Request for Amendment (2021) was reviewed in Wordgathering, and his written and visual work has previously appeared in HAD, Wrongdoing Magazine, & Cool Rock Repository. You can follow him on twitter @AndersenFields.