”Please Do Not Touch” (2025) By Rachel Sumner
Fully formed and well informed 
she’d sprung up like a weed
Nameless and free, 
next to all the sweet flowers

She was turning heads 
at breakneck speeds, 
somewhere in the lineup was 
where you’d find me:
Shameless thief
I’d steal her heart in the wee
Small hours

I’d love to love to love to love her

I can see
The placard reads
“Do not touch 
please”

Do not touch
Do not touch
Do not touch please