Let me be

How silly

I feel even if

Bomb dust

Is my ancestor

How flushed

I still get

Even if

Sandwiches

Need making

Beauty

Let me be

Alone in my

Human

Begging and

Love me

Anyway


 

From ZZ Jelenic: I am a Ukraine-born poet raised in Brooklyn and New Jersey. I am currently raising my two young daughters with my husband in Northern New Jersey.