Jacob Sunderlin, a finalist in Narrative’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest, is a writer and musician and the author of poetry collection The We in the Back of the House (Saturnalia, 2022). Educated at public schools, he teaches at one in Indiana.

Two Poems

by Jacob Sunderlin

How to Start

You should never start

a story I woke up
because you think some camera cares,
is there, plumb bob


in the deep well
of your toothbrushing—bellwether,
your buttering


the toast. At least do something weird,
smear your invented yoga
across the Wednesday,
People on couch
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