Maybe one of these words
is key to the reason
I’ll never find you:

a) wife b) election c) force d) whim e) jail-bait f) drunk

a) you were already someone’s husband
b) town mayor
c) serial rapist
d) never knew of me
e) boss’s teenage niece was my mom
f) she wasn’t sure which one was you

Shoshauna Shy’s poems have recently been published by Black Coffee Review, Creative Wisconsin, San Pedro River Review, and Cerasus Magazine. Her poems have been made into video, produced inside taxi cabs, and even decorated the hind quarters of city buses.