QuakeA Poem by Jennifer CAs expected, I felt it first in the backs of my heels A close and tight vibration Running up my thighs and although the concept is hardly new it still shook me when the linoleum floor in perfect squares and the cute and measured glass doors held by steal frames shifted beneath and around me in deliberate, repeating shimmies
how strange to see things loosing form to see the awful spaces between our daily concretes like grout beneath the tile or those third-world creases of the body that never see the sun
I planted myself firm and looked Far off to keep my ground But then I heard the voices Giggling about me by the lockers Outside my window in the sun And everything went still I lost my space And fell
© Jennifer Chaussee
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1 Review Added on December 13, 2011 Last Updated on December 14, 2011 Tags: shifting, movement, uncertainty, loss, change AuthorJennifer CSacramento, CAAboutI am a poet and non-fiction writer. **All my work is copyrighted. It is your responsibility to understand copyright laws but just as a quick tutorial, they exist as a formality to protect the br.. more..Writing
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