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Shopping on Friday F tells his wife about the animals. There is a mouse that’s made a nest in the sea chest where he keeps the paper napkins and rum. And a rat is chewing the feet of the furniture. He forgets its name. It is a rat or a mouse, he feels very certain, and there is a roach in the bathroom. Well, it isn’t in the bathroom, it is at the foot of his wardrobe, but his wardrobe is near the bathroom. If he sees it again he will spray. There are gecko stars upon the screen but those are just their feet, not really stars, and guinea pigs in the garden, but we knew that before. On Sunday F enters the bathroom, poison bottle in hand. But the only thing in the bathroom is his wife, who looks up from the mirror. On her fingertip is a long thin whisker, or possibly a hair.
Marcela Sulak has authored four poetry collections, including the National Jewish Book Awards Finalist City of Skypapers (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and the memoir, Mouth Full of Seeds (Black Lawrence Press, 2020). She's co-edited Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres (Rose Metal Press, 2016) and translated four poetry collections from Czech, French, and Hebrew. Sulak directs the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Bar-Ilan University.
