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Poetry | January/February 2023

Late Postpartum Dream Sequence

By Christy Lee Barnes

You are bound with thick ribbons
knots at your wrists,
knees, ankles, waist.
Anywhere you might break.
 
You might break anywhere. 
 
Bright silk, colorful.
Constricting blood flow.
       	
You tied them all yourself.
 
Now you pull at a loose end 
until it unspools.
 
Now you flex your naked wrist, 
 
which is healed,
which was never broken. 

Tagged: Jan/Feb 2023

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