Friday, March 14, 2014

Janet, on Ward 6






Her right hand doesn’t trust her.
It’s seen her get this way before.
All moody and distracted

and encumbered by the dream
she’s not encumbered anymore.
She pumps it up and down

like Beethoven defying thunder –
then uses it, without a sponge
or brush, to scrub the floor.









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