Two small girls are playing Apple Store.
They pretend an invisible force pushes them
into the pool and ruins their invisible iPhones.
Who is doing this to us!? one of them cries
as they haul themselves out to enact it again.
Margaret Ray is the author of GOOD GRIEF, THE GROUND (BOA Editions, 2023, winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize), and SUPERSTITIONS OF THE MID-ATLANTIC (2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Prize).