Illustration by Jorja Garcia
Max says I collect male movies
Like shot glasses of places I stayed a single night.
I view masculinity through a smudged car window–
Like a kid clinging to the 8 mm film he found in grandma’s attic–
No sheet to project on, frantically
Holding his hand
just
so
to catch the light.
Long-dead strangers' smiles broken
By the lines of a little palm.
Reese Alexander (she/her) is a sophomore at Barnard. She is an English major, and plans to concentrate in creative writing. Reese is originally from Birmingham, Alabama, and her two favorite triple word phrases are Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Pumpkin Spice Latte.