ghost kitchen
Start with sand*
and scroll stock.
Prepare in a room
with no seats.
I am not alive
to appeal to you.
Two wrap things
up are ready to eat.
An ever y of body
itches the oven over
-taken with orders.
Range: do I have __hood?
I think that would limit elements
falling, drifting.
Unless person.
Check listens.
There is the pretending to*.
Vanessa Couto Johnson (she/they) is the author of the full-length poetry books pH of Au (Parlor Press, Free Verse Editions Series 2022) and Pungent dins concentric (Tolsun Books, 2018), as well as three poetry chapbooks. Most recently, VCJ's poems have appeared in The Shore, The Broken City, Rough Cut, and Landfill, among others.