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Advice to Friend Moving to Ohio

1.) Do not be discouraged by the rain;
its tail will be furrowed, furious,
but the interior of your house will remain
untouched. Your small hair will need not
fret about such things.

2.) The girls will be combed grey-toned
sketchbooks, with perfectly parted bangs.
They will be sick sky and poor
poetry. Find someone from Louisiana,
Carolina who will not guile.

3.) Happiness is not presumptuous;
it is wary and laughless, prowling
for crumbs of alone, elements of longing.
It is Madagascar, burned.
Do not devour.

4.) Write letters home, two stanza
ordeals on glorified postcards. We will
understand you are too busy for more.
I will send you florid volumes.
Be a man; do not answer.

5.) If you get anxious without the cradling,
pined breasts of Binghamton, do not call
home. Do not write scores with our names
in the title. Simply fall apart.
This is what leaving is for.

Erin Elizabeth
Forthcoming in Black Bear Review

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