LYN LIFSHIN
In Those First Moments
esp after valium or linden
tea, the nothingness
comforts. Then, what is
leaks back in. My skin
with the blood soaked
squares, a woman in
clunky heels attempting
salsa gauged. Not the
first week or month’s
long litany of gauze,
silver, Adaptec tapes—
that “just one more thing”
days after a bruise finally
heals. I think of one
love, seeing his leg
blown off in Nam,
and then the other,
bleeding, dangling
yelped One is fair but
this, this is carrying it too far
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