Garrote


︎︎︎ Emily K. Sipiora

︎ July 30, 2024

Jacked up vein on father’s leg
and just like him I am fine alone
in my apartment waiting for
my pill to hit

Love me like the Bears
do not expect much
















Emily K. Sipiora is a poet from Northern Illinois. Her writing appears in Angel City Review, Currant Jam, the Chicago Review of Books, and Spoon River Poetry Journal.