Haley Lasché

Hesitant when Pressed #3

eyes close snow blooms of a chasm

eyes open too small for aluminum bellies

eyes close the hunt of caw in the squall

eyes open the crumb-tripped chord exposure

eyes close to the rustle battle melt

eyes open to a fresh sage wound

eyes open a silphium stage

eyes close a poultice of frame wood

the ache of tender barley rusts on the stalk

Hesitant when Pressed #9

eyes open a grass walkway

eyes close the varicose sky plate

eyes close a chattering bulge of petals

eyes open timid fur length

eyes open a harassed but potent rind

eyes open the clogged scream of spares

eyes close a string of owl jabs

eyes close a haunted jaw-scape

eyes open a liquefied brass grate

hearth and hearth and hearth

washed away

Hesitant when Pressed #13

eyes open wind’s quick

eyes close peels of nail bark

eyes open the side of this house

hesitant when pressed

no more a ground cherry

eyes close tired of new beds

eyes close the soft skin of baby chipping sparrow

eyes open herniated wood-flesh

eyes close use-cracked pincers

left side over now

eyes close the beet-stained soil

eyes open the broken fibula

eyes sip from algae

and sip and sip again

what could not be left