Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Seventeen
Summer 2008
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Under The Cloud
Talia Reed

it gathers and covers, waiting

to overthrow me.
Mine isn’t the heart bleeding.

Pique the overcast. Goad out the shower.

monkey flower phlox meadow saffron
kaffir lily wandflower
lavender
oleander

I am grafted, fettered and all—
a waif at the edge of my wit
and you’ll never see it;

the clamor.
the tawdry dream.

forget about the raw parts
and the fragile bend.

Cloud drift on the blink.

About Talia Reed

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