Lipstick

Shannon Poggi

Your lipstick 
Stains 
Rorschachs
On my skin
On my mugs and my glasses
I try to make sense of them
Porous butterflies or orchids
I like that you always leave a bit
Of yourself with me

Shannon Poggi is a writer and illustrator who has been previously published in the House of Long Shadows magazine, Chartium magazine, FERAL: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and The Willow Literary Magazine.