Violet Peasant

Everyone ever says to violet peasant go down to the chalkpit and drowse. A cyclamen dismounts to her and she is on stem, wavering; she aspires to; she may go down to the chalkpit. Yet she exhumes a big turquoise in brush and they rise in excogitating chroma. She is New Glacial now, flounced, will call her psychosis Lucille.

Joseph Spece is author of BAD ZOO (Fathom, 2018) and Roads (Cherry Grove, 2013). He lives outside Boston, MA.