Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal Poem

Arsenic Lobster poetry journal	Issue Seventeen Summer 2008
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Shiver
Talia Reed

as birds are often crushed
so we swallow the
lemon, tomato, the orphan.

intuit disaster.

hard water pounding stainless steel.
Washington Monument strikes through a cloud.

My Indiana crumbles down.

the lightning flashes so silent;
that frozen moment where
Sudden meets Unknown;
where sprouted my own fear;
what crash, what jarring, what
piles left over.

sensation of emptiness.

About Talia Reed