Just for Good Measure
O, Nightmare Rebound Boyfriend,
so glad I broke it off.
I see you now and then in dreams—
can’t dump your ass enough.
Nicole Caruso Garcia’s full-length debut, OXBLOOD (Able Muse Press), recently received the International Book Award for narrative poetry. Her work appears in Best New Poets, Mezzo Cammin, ONE ART, Plume, Rattle, RHINO, and elsewhere. She serves as associate poetry editor at Able Muse and as an executive board member at Poetry by the Sea, an annual poetry conference in Madison, CT. Visit her at nicolecarusogarcia.com.