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October 18, 2006

accessories

Julie Ann Strand

fingers in a pool of pills she wonders
if canceled prescriptions should pour and
sift through plastic and hemp necklaces made
at youth group retreats old makeup powders
coating the trash bag tip trickle rain they
go the garbage can fills quickly before
the twist tie her hands fill with the pleasures
of ghostly torsos those who hid, gave, made,
swallowed, and wore one cannot remain
traumatized forever like a lost
statue cut off at elbows
 
 

Posted by Rock Heals at October 18, 2006 12:00 AM