Cady Favazzo

The winter we were in love,

you made pizza with the 99 cent
blue box crust slurped
to the bottom
of the pan and propped
me up against the foot of the couch
to eat it. I added strip
to Yahtzee, to Candyland, flipped
colored squares and lost, gleefully,
my socks and my borrowed red bra.
When you untied me, I stood
at the window, letting in diesel stink
and dry swallowed purple dice
like candy, edges smooth
against my throat.

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Cady Favazzo is a poet and teacher from Wyoming. You can find some of her recent work in Phoebe, The Columbia Review and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2021 Five South Poetry Prize.