SONNET

get out of my dream factory!
it's 5:52 and even the birds
outside sound like they're 
facing an impossible sun.

i can't find you anywhere awake
my eyes are like buckets
dragging through
your thighs, no: fingernails.

the license plates in front of me
don't spell out any words at all.
you make forgetting 
look so easy.

last night, the bar played the saddest songs.
like someone was going away.

Sophia Le Fraga uses objects, images, and poems to explore how language accumulates, circulates, and leaves traces over time. Le Fraga is the founding editor of No Issue, one-third of Grupo Ñ, and a member of the international artist group Collective Task.