"Pulling Stitches"
I pull the stitches from my fingertip,
wincing with the expectation of a
never-realized
pain.
"Isn't it funny," I think to myself,
"how it's the things that hold us together
that slip through our fingers
so easily..."
[first published in New Bard Press, Drive, 2004]
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