Communion
by Jessica Roy
when I was a kid my
grandmother fell in and out
of seizures and just before
her final one she looked at me
with marble eyes and said:
this world will tear you in
two, do not tell anyone
your secrets.
the trouble with boys is that
they all make the same face
right before they put it in and
girls walk with straighter
spines when their hair’s in
a pony tail.