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A Click Of the Door, Part 2

I almost drown in my own spit.

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A Click Of the Door, Part 1

"Plastic doesn't shatter," I tell him.

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5th Excerpt From Mind Emerging

My arms gather nothing.I am afraid of this nothing.

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4th Excerpt From Mind Emerging

It’s not the wind that catches my hair in fever.

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Gladys

Gladys was thin and frail, swimming in a night coat the color of salmon.

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At Ten They Dole Out Pills

Pills are handed out, swallowed squares—comfort to troubled minds.

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Wildly Awake and Still

Her body sinking, a rock done skipping across water.

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Pens

It is cold in my skin.

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Excerpt From Mind Emerging

Shame settles in like peeing accidentally in my pants.

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Hospital Visit Number 19—Third Installment of Four

Eventually, the toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.

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Hospital Visit Number 19—second installment of four

I am lost in sentences that remind me of mud.

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Hospital Visit Number 19 First installment of four

The doctor will try to shake loose my shadow and fail.

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