Something About Scorpions: Lexy Wanzell

April 29, 2020, Kate Belew With Lexy Wanzell (Brooklyn, New York)

I loved him in three’s

counting came naturally

though you cant count to infinity 

or at least I can't. Not today. Today 

I remember him as one 

and that's how I am too. Some song 

that I don’t remember though have always loved 

Something about banjos, and the way sound moves across 

time, space, and skin

I miss the desert these days and wish we were there. 

Something about the collision of our heat with the sand beneath us

something about scorpions. 

And the way their sting never compared to skin on skin 

I loved him in threes.