Katherine Fallon
GIN A JUNIPER SLICK

Gin a juniper slick,
drain-bound, spilled

by the wrist that meant it
this time. The glass-floor

desert, the sugared rim,
glister in cloud-gauze

sunlight. To win, to be
as cold and lasting

as the snow. Sometimes

me, sometimes winter.

Katherine Fallon lives and writes in Philadelphia. She received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence and her work has recently appeared in Sink Review and Snake Nation Review.

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