Apology The fly does not know how to leave the bathroom even though the door is open. It flies into the shower, banging against the dirty glass doors, the frosted window, the cluster of hanging eucalyptus. Its buzzing sound makes me flinch and cover my ears, the vibration making my earlobes twinge. I admit to… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 9
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Poem 263 – Hinge
Hinge I don’t know how to tell you thisto give you the number of times I’ve tried to say –how the sounds wrap around my bones jagged coughingit’s like… the only thing I can be is hingedconnected but swinging away opening a gap that is finite with a brisk wind ofinfinite apologies each of them… Continue reading Poem 263 – Hinge
VANESSA SHIELDS 