Wrack Lines
by Karla Linn Merrifield

I wake up
in a holiday
cliché
posthumous
Valentine's Day
hurricane-wrenched
gale-whipped
superlative
saddest season
id est
red tide's
dead fish
beach-rotting
say it's so
round the island
ring of death
Here is not
the scaleshine
of happiness
I arrive
in the wild
kingdom of trite
in February
asking what
is it all about?
why these tears?


 


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