Checking the ceiling corners
for spiders and constellations,
I hear my voice ask
are you alone
is there anyone
but my chest is cresting
and I pull the shirt from my stomach.
The scent of laundry is strong
and the Unmentionables bleed
fiber into fabric softener.
The letter L is written
on my hand in case I forget.
Unaddressed postcards tumble,
creasing their silhouette.
Dogeared pages turn teary
as the glue unravels.
Against the vibrations,
I worry about spilling cups of coffee
and move that to the dryer too.
The static tears my skin,
snagging my spine
one stitch at a time.
Shrinking, unraveling–
the vowels and consonants
hang on the line
too damp to be read.
Amy LeBlanc holds an honours BA in English Literature and creative writing at the University of Calgary where she is Editor-in-Chief of NōDMagazine. Her work has appeared in Prairie Fire, (Parenthetical), Untethered, and Canthius among others, and she received second place in the 2016 Blodwyn Memorial Prize for fiction. Amy also has work forthcoming in Room, Contemporary Verse 2, and The Antigonish Review. Her chapbook, “Collective Nouns for Birds” was published by Loft on Eighth Press in December.
Megan Sadler is an amateur photographer, blogger, and IBS-D and Endometriosis patient. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico. After leaving her job due to her deteriorating health in 2017, she became interested in photography and wanted to find a way to document her life with chronic illness through photos and prose. This turned into a photoblog called 
February Grace has been writing since childhood, and has fulfilled her dreams of having poetry, prose, art work, and novels published. She has come “out of retirement” so to speak specifically to submit to Blanket Sea. She lives with Bipolar Disorder, OCD, PTSD, and more chronic illnesses than can fit on an 8X10 sheet of paper in a size 10 font. She enjoys interacting with readers on Wattpad, where her books have more than 2.7 million reads, combined. For more information you can find her on Twitter