We’re asleep on the couch.
I’m no bigger than a football
and his arm is around me
the only time I know.
My blond wisps are poking
through black here and there,
through the same strands that found
the gentle hands of another son
and a woman who is not my mother.
Zach Thomas is a recent graduate of Virginia Tech’s MA in English program. His latest work appears in Archarios and Rock Music Studies.