Arsenic Lobster poetry journal
Issue Nine
Winter 2005
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OF WHAT IS LEFT
Anna Husain

She wearies of the night, clocks
her haunted hair, halos ash, pulverized
thread, immaculate as worms to touch.


Tones of heros, held in words on paper
cupped in hardened hands
blood proud, run cold in albums
weathered acid strips.


Pleas. Where is the necessary
curve of flesh? Feel of warmth?
Sun mirror impaled
on skewered hours. Shattered--
never


hush.


About Anna Husain

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