Manzano Mountain Review is an online New Mexico literary journal affiliated with UNM-Valencia.
Manzano Mountain Review

Orange Peel 
by Allie Rigby

Allie Rigby is a Bay Area poet and educator with roots in the chaparral of southern California. Her writing has been published on Living on Earth Radio, as well as in Visitant, Open Ceilings, Vita Brevis, Cholla Needles, and the previous issue of Manzano Mountain Review. Her website is www.allierigby.com.
    


I spoke
one tone
last night

as I do
when sad—
like a dog

it’s been a lot
I am fine

a lamp in dust
still works. 

Hard to read
much
this March.

I peel fruit
now
like a lemur

eyes open
for
asteroids.