Margaret Yapp

ENDS MEET TAUT, LONG

Sequence of stressors, I long, I grasp
for pause, pause possible, hope or double
of hope, response, I pin, I pray
please, press skip, easy buttons
I perform. I press
the buttons in sequence, in response, promise
of repose, posits, I peak, I peek

when I feel the light I obviously try to grab the light.
I have a string in me and forget about it often.
I wrap my hands around my longing.

MARGARET YAPP is the author of Green for Luck (EastOver Press, 2024) and the founding editor of Rampage Party Press. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Book Arts from the Iowa Center for the Book. She lives in Iowa City.