Ducklings: Emi, Jackie

May 19, 2020 Kate Belew with Emi, Jackie (New York City)

I'm just trying to keep my head above

the noise but my fifth floor walk up 

is thick beneath a public crying

out for justice. Like that one scene

in the Sopranos with the ducks

and the anxiety of harming one's family

reflects in the light of a New Jersey sun. Listen,

I'm not here to say anything you don't already know.