They say it can’t be,
but it is, perfect.
What they don’t know
is that clocks
circle the drain
like pasta water,
unasked questions
we both know
answers for. After
some time we
actually did become
psychic—I know
another life flickers
somewhere in your
mind, yet you come
home to guess at
The Price Is Right.
It says I have
seen what God does
and the endoscopy,
and I could not
find another crevice
through which to
love you—whatever
hasn’t been said
is whispered
over and again
as we hang
in the blackness
of the in-between
dotted with blue,
white, and red giants.
Sandra Marchetti is the 2023 winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, DIORAMA from Stephen F. Austin State University Press (2025), Aisle 228 (SFA Press, 2023), and Confluence (Sundress Publications, 2015). Sandy is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry and lyric essays. Her poetry and essays appear widely in Mid-American Review, Blackbird, Ecotone, Southwest Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She is Poetry Editor Emerita at River Styx Magazine. Sandy earned an MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry from George Mason University and now serves as the Assistant Director of Academic Support at Harper College in Chicagoland. You can find out more at: https://sandramarchetti.net/