This velvet sack
contains your fingernails.
I got them off of eBay.
When the wind picks up,
I clean them. Sorry,
I just trampled all
the calla lilies
on your grave,
a decade in bloom.
You must have been pretty
even in the dark.
You must have looked
just like my mother.
Pretty one, here is my skull
to match yours. I like
a Toblerone every morning
and a short skirt.
I go shave in the woods,
donate to the fun razor.
My new girl’s fine but
mute as a pair of milkers.
Sometimes she makes me a statue
of my mind in the dirt.
It looks so like a couch.
She tells me to get off
the internet, only I don’t
have your toenails yet.
Poem For H.D. After Online Shopping

Amelia Sage Van Donsel is pursuing her MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Bennington Review, FENCE, the Academy of American Poets, Little Mirror, Afternoon Visitor, and elsewhere.