BODY FIRST
SLEEP BEST
SLEEP, REST
RADISHES

WORK MORE
SIT, STARE
WORK LESS
LESS CARE

WORRY LOTS
BE STILL
FLOWERPOTS
WINDOWSILL

UP LATE
TETRIS
BAKE CAKE
SLEEP, REST

DRESS DOWN
BIG HUG
HALF MOON
DISHRAG

DISH SOAP
CORNMEAL
MEASURING CUP
TILL YOU’RE FULL

LATE WALK
LEATHERFLOWER
FRENCH TALK
LOOK AT THE RIVER

LETTUCES
KALE SEED
SLEEP, REST
ALL YOU NEED

DAYTIME
LATE LIGHT
CLEAN SHEETS
MAKE OUT

FLIPFLOPS
NICE SHIRTS
SCREENSHOTS
<3 HEARTS

FILL PEN
THINK LESS
WRITE AGAIN
USPS

MAKE WORK
MAKEREADY
FAKE WORK
REAL PRETTY

STOP SCREEN
SOFT SPINE
STAND UP
BREATHE IN

SHAKE LOOSE
NEIGHBOR CAT
CHICKWEED
SUN HAT

BREATHE OUT
SHOWER OFF
SUPPERTIME
WHO DO YOU LOVE

DAY GONE
BODY FIRST
SET DOWN
SLEEP, REST

—

Anna Lena Phillips Bell is the author of Ornament, winner of the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize, and the chapbook Smaller Songs, from St Brigid Press. Bell is the winner of the 2021 Winter Anthology Contest and recipient of an NC Arts Council Fellowship in Literature. Raised in what’s now called upstate South Carolina, Bell teaches at UNC Wilmington, where she is editor of Ecotone, and calls ungendered Appalachian square dances in North Carolina and beyond. For more, visit annalenaphillipsbell.net.