Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Collections: Warped Passage





Ninety

I’m taking everything off
she announces, clawing at her clothes.
A new scar gleams on her mended hip.

Where did this come from, where is it going?

A cross-hatched seam
in the center of a body’s landslide.
A cradle for children, a long-ago man; a broken wing.

She begins brailling her whorled fingertip along
the red raised tracks. This is not what she expected.
A railroad crossing pocked with stop signs.
A fire escape going down.



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