Between you and das federbett between snoozes of the alarm between your fingers between your toes between waking up and getting up between getting up and Kaffee between my legs between yours between the wall where you’re kissing me and the small of my back between the sheets between lovers between dusk and dawn between Adam and Eve between fish and ladders between good and evil between the eyes of the heart and thoughts of the mind between the farmer’s daughter and the last bale of hay between the needle and the damage done between beats of the heart between oceans between sea and sky between women between high tide and low tide between God and Mann between men and women between mother and child between brustwarz and baby between milk and death between dogs and Mann between shades of grey between waking up and going to bed between reasons to live and reasons to thrive between breakfast and lunch between Olaf’s six sandwiches and Olaf’s lemon cake no sandwiches? between kisses hello and kisses goodbye between words in a word game between freezing and scalding  the very fine line       between art             and life between the split of a piece of wood and the splinters on the ground between the stone and the clay between teacher and student between friend and beloved between Olaf and Olaf’s empty tummy between thank you for playing and you win an all-expense paid trip to the laundromat.

Jennifer Woodworth studied creative writing at Old Dominion University.  She is the author of the chapbook, How I Kiss Her Turning Head, published by Monkey Puzzle Press. Her stories and poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Gone Lawn, The Citron Review, Bending Genres Journal, The Eastern Iowa Review, *82 Review, and The Inflectionist Review, among others. She's also a nominee for a 2020 Micro Fiction. She knows how lucky she is anytime she gets to write.