My new house is empty, rooms bare of the markers of life: No hair
in the sink. No tumbled sheets. No echoes of arguments won and
lost. After I measure the length and breadth of all the rooms, make
notes in my little black book, I unwrap the mattress that arrived
this morning. It unfurls before me like a soft white petal.
two shots of birthday bourbon
overblown camellias
rot on the doorstep
Eve Müller lives in Eugene, Oregon with her sweetheart. She has recently published in About Place, Camas, Marrow Magazine, Contemporary Haibun Online, Sequestrum, and Timberline Review among others. Some of her work has been anthologized, and she has had two books published: Guide to the Ruins and Birds and Saints. She was awarded a PLAYA artists’ residency as well as a residency at Wupatki National Monument, was a winner in the Cirque poetry contest, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. When Eve is not writing, she bakes, hikes, conducts research on autism, hangs out with her mom and two feral daughters, and skinny-dips whenever/wherever she can.
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