after Rose-Lynn Fisher’s “after goodbye” from The Topography of Tears
like stitches
like scratches
like scars on the skin
like crossroads littered
like pavement cracked
like X marks the spot here
and here
and here—
a gash in the surface of the moon
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 24, Issue 5.
Robin Turner has recent work in Bracken Magazine, Ethel, River Mouth Review, and in the Dream Geographies project. A longtime community teaching artist in Dallas, she is now living in the Pineywoods of rural East Texas for a spell. She works with teen writers online.
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