GRETEL

Zelda Fitzgerald Paper Doll, 1941

i am the first girl / the middle girl / the final girl

i am a danseuse / mannequin / princess grim

horror is lower case / lone daughters / paper-thin

famine refugee / from climate / schemes maternal

nibble / nibble / little mouse

the wind / the wind / the heavenly child

brother in cage / relish crayfish shells / my gingerbread house

THOUGHTS DURING A BROTHERS QUAY EXHIBIT

artists hunger  to   maleficiate dolls

dim narrative      polaroid slurry

relationship soil        achromatic

bedlam heart   toilsome       jerky

famished    consume   witch toddler

evening cervelat      smoked mumble dreams

api noir     nostril hair larvae

fried wrinkle     crow's feet     cornea sauce

kinetoscope    kitchen reliquary

jesus bain-marie   boiling      saliva cross

Jeffrey H. MacLachlan also has recent work in The Columbia Review, New York Quarterly, HAD, among others. He is a Senior Lecturer of literature at Georgia College & State University.