Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale

The Island Designated Yes

You, across my chest, asleep. Looks like you've landed.
Clover touching words in a dictionary. The light is sour
honey on indigo cherry drops. That hum coming from the
forest, it has something to say and we better listen. Sway
little window, sway little window. A bee carries the sun
along its hairs. My skin warms where you exhale. Please
exhale.

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Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for Poetry. He lives in Syracuse, New York.

Dustin Nightingale is the author of Ghost Woodpecker (BatCat Press, 2018). His poetry has been or will be published in journals such as The Florida Review, The American Journal of Poetry, New Ohio Review, Cimarron Review and Coal Hill Review. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.