I like a home that follows where I go.

No repetition of furniture. One window

to show a lavender field or a cantilever bridge,

depending on my whim to transfigure.

No repetition of furniture. One window,

like a heart, apiary-thrumming, willing,

depending on my whim to transfigure.

Enough storage for the people I’ve lost.

I like a heart apiary-thrumming, willing.

Loud in color, full of now, bespoke current.

Enough storage for the people I’ve lost.

Today is a different space than past or future:

loud in color, full of now, bespoke current.

I like a home that follows where I go.

I hitch myself to minutes, keep moving,

to show a lavender field or a cantilever bridge.

Alicia Rebecca Myers's poetry has appeared in publications that include River Styx, Sixth Finch, and Frozen Sea. Most recently, she was the winner of the 2025 Cantor Poetry Prize and the 2025 Nebraska Poetry Society Open Contest. Her first full-length manuscript, Warble, was chosen as winner of the 2024 Birdy Poetry Prize (Meadowlark Press) and was published in January 2025.