Why I Won’t Yet Say I Love You
Trust is an abstract but its absence has mass. I roll the rounded lack of it around my mouth where words would be if I trusted the flutter of my gut more than you, more than any given man. If I knew things grew beyond my power of destruction. If it was not clear I am most endearing on an altar and when I am only ears, an inviting mouth. This is not about you. This is not about me, though I’ll say it is for ease of explanation. I am an echo chamber for so many voices. When I open, I want to be what escapes.
Krista Cox is a poet, teacher, and freelancer. Krista is Managing Editor of The Wardrobe and an Associate Poetry Editor at Stirring: A Literary Collection. She’s the Executive Director of Lit Literary Collective, and on the Board of Directors of the LGBTQ Center of South Bend, Indiana. Her poetry has appeared in Columbia Journal, Salt Hill, Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere. Krista is Doubleback Review’s Managing Editor.
