The Glacier
Issue Three
Winter 2024

Flop-Era

It’s business as usual 
at the pain factory. 
I’m experiencing 
a lack of taffeta, 
a dearth of dance floors. 
Please enjoy these pigs 
in a blanket. Is it possible 
to get worse with practice? 
I’m waiting for you to speak to me.
I’m waiting for the dead to speak to me.
The day dissolves like an Alka-Seltzer
yet the hangover remains.
Cheap dharma. A flimsy spatula.
Consumer reports confirm
I’m a manufacturer of disaster.
Why does the moon appear full
when in fact it is merely 
approaching fullness? 
I opened a window, 
and papers flew all over the floor. 
I closed the window, 
and the room felt stuffy.

Lara Egger is the author of How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It, (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021), which won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. Her poems have appeared, or will soon appear, in Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Conduit, Bennington Review, Southeast Review, Ninth Letter, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Australia, Egger now lives in Boston where she co-owns a tapas bar. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

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