The first installment in our monthly reading series at Groundswell is on the 20th, so I've been throwing together some new stuff for the occasion. I've got four new pieces so far and hope to hammer out a couple more in the next week or so. All of us have a lot of work ahead of us to get ready for the full group anthology, so I'm hoping to get my stuff fairly closed to settled well before the deadline so I can get to editing for my fellow Skull and Poemsers. Anyway, here's a taste of what's to come--it's called Paralysis:
Sitting, still and serious
fixed on the space between her fingers
as they lay restless on her thigh
Hoping she doesn't catch me
but even if she were to look over
and see my eyes locked
on the outline of each digit
I couldn't turn from her
Pressing my gaze into those gaps
is as close as I will ever come
to the feeling of our hands clasped
together, the world at our fingertips.
I can't look away
I can't
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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