the electronic match, made and lit

by David LaBounty

for you this is the season,

with its vision of a
new and hopeful woman

staring at the ceiling
in your kitchen, her

back leaning against
the just scrubbed stove, her

ankles bare and
crossed, a veteran

wineglass limp and
expectant in her hand.

  • About the author

    David LaBounty's recent work has appeared in Night Train, the New Plains Review, Pemmican, Pank, Unlikely 2.0 and other journals. His third novel, Affluenza - which is about pyromania, pornography, debt, consumerism and vanity told through the financial rise and fall of an insurance executive who lives beyond his means - was published this summer.