HERE BOY

                    by Sophie Klahr & Corey Zeller 

You are everything my knees wanted to be,
patient and swollen and home.

I want there to be
enough thunder for everyone.

For years, no one said anything
about the color
of my eyes

so they became a color.

They became like the wrist
of a nurse, a stairwell,

a poem about a house
to a lover that says
Survive me.

I put my mouth to the sting
of anything.

I have a cut for every time
the curtains part.

I dream of a dog who hears me
call to him. He hears me call

and never comes.











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While they’ve only met once, Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller have been writing together since 2012. Sophie is the author of Meet Me Here At Dawn (YesYes Books); Corey is the author of You and Other Pieces (Civil Coping Mechanisms) and Man Vs. Sky (YesYes Books). Individually, they’ve been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Their collaborative work appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Passages North, Four Way Review, The Southeast Review, The Rumpus, and Sixth Finch. At present, mercifully, they live in the same time zone.