Vestige

This way to return address, fontanel, a manifesto.

She twins up beyond hollow, names the phases of fracture.

Gold-flecked, a hypnosis.

She calms for a gone time, refracts.

What she meant was glass, all over the place.

L. Vella has poems that have appeared in Spork, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Birdfeast, Sugar House Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and Black Warrior Review. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently lives and works in Iowa City.

“Vestige” was originally published in Bat City Review Issue 14.