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Your Laundry on the Line Like a Giant, Breathing Beast by MARTHA SILANO
Your laundry on the line like a giant, breathing beast,
like the billowing sheets above the alleys in Trastevere,
where mothers yell after their children Vieni qua! Vieni qua!
while underwear sways like language itself. Rippling and tossing…

