List
A thousand things times
naught. I want
that. An empty.
The glint
from a fork
eclipsed
in the wet
of a mouth. The ash
flake
having once. The lash
blown before
its wish. The current
it traveled
out of sense. I ask
the trace
of a sea
gone extinct. Subtract.
The path
of a fin
from that past. A breath
next to last.
Nothing.
Less.
Allison Cobb is the author of Plastic: an Autobiography, winner of the Oregon Book Award and the Firecracker Award for creative nonfiction.