A Stack of Bones in the Shape of Day: Meredith Starkman

March 24, 2020 Kate Belew with Meredith Starkman (New York)

A whiplash blue, the rain this morning.

Weather is the only one allowed outside.

I have always hated rules, but here I obey

the news, the numbers, the noise.

My rebellion now inside skeleton only

a stack of bones in the shape of a day.

And how many days has it been now?

And how many books did we say we’d write?

I am a liar in this life too.