Insomnia
by Kristin LaFollette
It is dark—
I have a camera to
capture still shots
of the city and your
brain before it changes
and forms into:
Lights—
Green and red from traffic
White from the street
I jump from a concrete
pillar, the camera sitting
heavy against your watery
chest, the lens cap still on;
it is dark:
The flash capturing our
bodies suspended in the
air as we jump,
cold
oxygen
in our
mouths
Your lips, blue
Me in a red sweater,
you in black, a figure
fading into the air—
Invisible body,
nocturnal animal
Kristin LaFollette is a PhD candidate at Bowling Green State
University in Rhetoric and Writing and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been featured in RED INK, Common Ground Review, Bridge Eight, West Trade Review, and Poetry Quarterly, among others. Her work was featured in the 2017 anthology Ohio’s Best Emerging Poets, and Kristin’s manuscript Body Parts won the grand prize in the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Contest and was published in March 2018. She currently lives in northwest Ohio. You can visit her at kristinlafollette.com.
