Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone, Permanent Record

Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone
Permanent Record
By Annmarie Lockhart

the scars of every break,
hidden from the eye but
knowable in a finger stroke
over a new-ridged bone

another new-ridged bone
like a medal won and worn
on the pedestal of place
and slid away in a collection

a prized collection of old-bump
bones, some fraction of the
whole, a permanent record
of every knock and spill

finger-read, like Braille,
chapter by bone-broke chapter


Annmarie's poem Black '47: An Gorta Mór appeared at vox poetica in March.

Posted by Annmarie at 12/31/2010 12:23 AM
Categories: today's words, Contributor Series 7
Tags: Contributor Series 7 Annmarie Lockhart bone break story prize
 

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