The Thing of Pain
Wake from 180 degree pain
rise to 90 degree pain
Pain’s the thing
Don’t use that arm
it don’t work
One thing I know:
hurt
Wake to ache
Smith, 6.18.2017
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Now No Later
Black cat crouches
in tense quiver
body shifting tensions
watching darting birds
outside screen
which keeps her in
and them out
her nerves anticipating feathered flesh
that never will arrive
– Smith, 6.19.2017
