Bodies are artifacts
of time spent in search of love.
The mirror reflects greyish hair
A neck of sweet creases.
Skin that has tanned,
Been made up,
lingered long in smoky rooms.
The maps around my eyes remember
a country of vague approval,
the best one was always:
‘You’re different’,
an endless procession of mornings
waking up different.
Meg Pokrass is the author of five flash fiction collections and a book of prose poetry, Cellulose Pajamas, for which she received the Blue Light Book Award. Her work has been widely and internationally anthologized, most recently in New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018), Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015) and The Best Small Fictions 2018, 2019. She serves as Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction.
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