Vogelfrei

I bought my worm and I
my worm become.
 
This is true for you also.
 
Look on the apple field:
it writhes with us.
 
Applecider,
fratricider.
 
The numb sweet juice,
The numb and sweetened tongue.

Knar Gavin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in literature at Syracuse University and recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Burnside Review, Birdfeast and Heavy Feathers Review. You can visit her at tropopausing.com.