Fractured
Anxiety crashed the gate,
bruising the battered
shape she had melded into,
emptying her voice
his voice
like a movie reel,
left untethered,
spun infinite
disapproval of her choice
his choice
that sliced her veins,
littering the surface with
shards of a crimson sky,
silencing her voice
his voice
the only one
that seemed to matter
as they lay unbuttoned
in the collapsed house.
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Joanne Spencer’s work has appeared in Sick Lit Magazine, Mother’s Always Write, Wildflower Muse, Ink In Thirds, The Tribe, Into the Void, Dying Dahlia Review and the Waterford, Michigan Outdoor Exhibit Poetry Leaves. She currently works as an Administrative Coordinator for the Board of County Commissioners in Northeast FL where she lives. She has published one novel, The Letter Keeper.
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