“Composition”
Ellery Beck
Stand motionless in the dark. Stretch
your body into staves, let the sheet
music lay itself across your skin. Your body
a small symphony, your soft breaths
in harmony with the dishwashers
hum, the fridge light halos holding light
against your face, the grilled cheese
sizzling its own song in the background. Dance
in the freezer’s fluorescence, you are the choir
and the choreography. Don't stay still
now, keep up our late-night snack
slow dance. Sing me another kitchen sink
melody, I'll stay in musical notation for you.
Ellery Beck is a graduate of Salisbury University with a BA in Creative Writing. A winner of the 2019 AWP Portland Flash Contest and a Pushcart nominee, they are the Founding Interview Editor for The Shore Poetry and a Poetry Reader for Poet Lore. They have poems published or forthcoming in Passages North, Colorado Review, Zone3, Sugar House Review, Fugue and elsewhere. Ellery is also one of the co-founders of Beaver Magazine.