Poetry: “Experiments in Drowning” by Erin Little

Experiments in Drowning

Wet city easy city wet
with sick with brackish 

water wet on the pointer 
finger and thumb to open 

a Rouse’s produce bag   
wet with sweat on the wrist 

where the bags hang 
wet with drink through 

the night and morning bars 
still open at five come inside

easy wet with belief 
what has been will keep so 

so easy to get lost in all that water 
but harder to find footing to find 

bottom to keep up with the flood 
as it rises see it’s already at our necks.

About Erin Little

Erin Little is the author of the poetry collection Personal Injury and winner of the 2023 Chestnut Review chapbook contest. Her writing has appeared in Crab Creek Review, HAD, Maudlin House, New Orleans Review, Prelude and others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Louisiana State University where she teaches composition and poetry. Find her at eringlittle.com.