To Drive a Lover Mad

Benjamin Garcia


 

Start by pressing rosemary
in every book he's ever read.

Call him from pay phones;
say nothing, just make birdcalls.

Write his name over and over
in soap scum. Leave

bird nests in his mailbox,
but keep the eggs

to make a cake—
and eat it for him, too. He won't

remember the face of his own mother
if he doesn't remember you.