Heidi Turner is a writer and musician from Maui, Hawaii. She holds a Master’s in English from Azusa Pacific University and has been published in Gravel as well as Abstract Magazine, Cirque, and Linden Avenue Literary Journal, among others. You can follow her work at http://www.hidturner.com.
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FORGETTING
Just last week, contentment
invaded, clutching a gift
wrapped in red ribbon,
a tiny box filled
with shattered stone tablets:
a list erased
by the finger of God.
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lax
the asphalt river of the world
snakes
through the fog toward the glass
and a new growth is growing –
“terminal, probably, that tumor”
and the tiny tv squawks anyway
interrupted
resuming after every inconvenience
as though I know the story well enough
to break it
we are slithering
toward the end of the line
and back behind me, a child cries
and I envy it through my soundproof
earphones and third ginger ale
in my illegal repose mid-fall
hunting
for an open window/door/air vent
before I settle in again –
waiting to approach the new-formed terminal,
what a shiny tumor I know we are all
mice.
*originally published as part of Re:Place Project, an online collaborative project
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