Poetry 

For Sale / Shareen K. Murayama

Studies say by the end of the year 
some lakes will dis-
appear alarming people 

frequent them more 
knowing the lake will not be 
a lake I once misplaced 

my mother my maiden
head or tails I believe
it’s quicker to find myself an empty 

glass than to find some-
one who has never lost
a lake a wife three jobs define

aggression
micro
means unit a family a house-

boat on cinder perched
on blocks even the marina
even deboned the docks’

ribs kindling dry someone  
has taken their heads
their tails

Shareen K. Murayama is a poet and educator. Her first chapbooks, HEY GIRL, ARE YOU IN THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP? by Harbor Editions and HOUSEBREAK by Bad Betty Press will be published in 2022. She reads poetry for The Adroit Journal and cnf for JMWW Journal. Her art is published or forthcoming in Pilgrimage Press, SoFloPoJo, SWWIM, Scrawl Place, and elsewhere. You can find her on IG & Twitter @ambusypoeming.