Scarlett Peterson is a poet and essayist. Her first collection, The Pink I Must Have Worn is available from Kelsay Books. She is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University. Her work can be found in Moon City Review, The Lavender Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Gargoyle Magazine, Poetry Online, and more.
Describe Love As A Physical Object
The fat bottle of water handed to me
by someone who knows which kind I buy,
having shopped with me again and again,
the black cap of it twirled off and flung
somewhere, lost before the bottle empties.
The way she knows the caps will go
and buys it anyway, always wanting
to sustain.