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Online Submissions : Poetry

Carpal REM

by Elizabeth Switaj

 

You cannot dream of your fingers
                You have to dream
snakes breaking through your scaphoid and lunate
  to hold the pencils     words you can't write
and you don't like snakes
                          I'm forced to dream
                          of his split fingernails
    when I touch my face
                         every trigger touched
                        in planes or bunkers
Some people dream of peace

                           we're stuck with nothing we can grasp
   cannot dream our fingers
will our wrists be next?