Carolyn Smale

Ghost Of The Quarantine

Here is the wait
for all
fault to sprout,

fade cells,
pull estrus bolts.

But I can still
feel the cool
of shade-

your hand folding
into an ode
that traces

this deep red
ring­ the price
of birth­­

pushing days
I'd marked as growth
and milk teeth

into earth.
 

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