A Kind of Figure Eight
By Yvonne Morris
The screen is ice—words like skaters on a frozen lake, bumping and halting
and loathing to fall. Stray ideas become
lines like blades, cutting across margins
of indifference—or not. Back and forth,
leaving patterns in the course of complaints
and consolations, tiring then heading
back to shore and rest, relief, release
from the tedious but necessary practice
of form as the monitor moonscape brightens over this slight world recounted.
Yvonne Morris lives in a small town in Kentucky. She is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, Busy Being Eve and Mother was a Sweater Girl, which are available on Amazon.com. Her work has appeared in Eclectica, ONE ART, The Galway Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, and elsewhere.