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Chronic Pain as Tidepool
Sarah Fawn Montgomerey
Pain pools pointed
as a star severed from a limb, reaching
for what is gone the way anemones hold
themselves open only to glimpse the threat,
close like a lonely mouth, bodies abandoning
homes like the hermit crab, barnacles clinging
desperate for stability in the shifting tides
of a shallow life, the kind where creatures
never make it back to sea.
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