The 2River View | 26.2 (Winter2022) |
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Connie Post In the Emergency Room on Saturday Night On the wall, a red cord says I tell myself to ignore it after discharge papers are signed When I go to bed at 2 a.m. I reach for it when I close my eyes I count the times it sways back and forth I pray to the sheets Three Months Since the Funeral I made breakfast this morning the batter hissed softly as I waited as the weeks go by I return to your kitchen I have a long way to go but for this ordinary I am squeezing the I am folding in eggs I promised myself I would not Connie Post has poems in River Styx, Slipstream, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Verse Daily. Her book Floodwater won the 2014 Lyrebird Award. Poetry awards include the Liakoura Award and Crab Creek Poetry Award. Her newest book Prime Meridian was released in January 2020.
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