2:00 AM
Your father wears the day / as a shirt with soot-spider
stains on his spine: / sweat-soaked, stuck like plastic wrap
to calloused skin / your ears peering through distilled
quiet / & retinas carving slivers of
Danae Younge
Danae Younge is an internationally recognized poet and a freshman at Occidental College. She has been recognized by The Live Poets Society of New Jersey, Pulp Poets Press, Susquehanna Review, Nonconfo