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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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Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Halfway from Home (Split/Lip Press), Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir (The Ohio State University Press) and three poetry chapbooks. She has a craft book on unlearning the ableist writing workshop and developing a disabled writing practice forthcoming with Sundress Publications, as well as a collection of flash nonfiction forthcoming with Harbor Editions. She is an associate professor at Bridgewater State University.
She can be found on Facebook as Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Twitter/X at @SF_Montgomery, and Instagram at @sarahfawnmontgomery