Tangled Thread
more from the grad school annals: a weird baseball-themed poem i wrote about loss in 2018
In the depths of the tangled thread,
she found her story:
beating, bloody
pumping a steady rhythm and rhyme
*
She reaches in, eyes glowing to
grab it, but
it unravels
sinking down
down
DOWN
DOWN
DOWN
DOWN...
*
down, she wants it so much
she goes down where she will won’t
give up
put down that story
damn those lies it would have told
it leaks through her fingers
like maple syrup
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