"what are you"

the cracks of sidewalk slabs / mimic wrecks in my phone screen / i like to think / my level of destruction is cosmic / not the internal twisting of insides / if everything must be incomprehensible / let concrete sink into this landscape / a condensed Northwest sky / stretched onto a Midwest skyline / i want to see / myself as a forest of evergreens / draped in fog unpassable / a parallel lost/ now that everyone is tossed up in air

Cassie Birk is a recent grad of The University of Iowa and is currently based in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems have been featured in Funny Looking Dog Quarterly, Primary Carbon Magazine, and Fearsome Critters' "Quarenzine". She is shy, bi, and ready to cry- which makes her a very stereotypical Pisces. You can find her on Insta @cheezh8er and on Twitter @BirkCassie