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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. 

~~~

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

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