Martha

Martha Plimpton on TV again!
What a beautiful day
for my friends to catch fire.
Run, friends. You’re on fire.
I love Martha Plimpton
with her silver dress and sexy
man on her arm. I love red bikinis,
but not on me. Don’t look!
It’s me alone in this cool body.
The day my house burned down,
a flood would have helped.
I carry my friends in the rain.
They are all made of wood.

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Delilah Silberman is a writer and photographer from New York City. She received her BA in Literature and Visual Arts from Bennington College and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Bat City Review, and Hobart.