Egress
Marie-Andree Auclair and the wife hangs upside down, knees bent over the high bar that spans the doorway. Her idea of brain work, irrigation by gravity pinking up her tired face, resting veins in her legs. Sand seeps down the neck of the hourglass. She hangs in the doorway to the laundry-room, sorting out a load of decisions—give in to sleep and sweets, steel herself, or buy gravity boots and escape to the ocean rushing to her ears. |
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About the Author: Marie-Andree Auclair lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in print and online publications such as In/Words Magazine — who released her chapbook Contrails in 2013 — The Steel Chisel, Bywords, filling Station, Structo, UK, Canthius, Contemporary Verse 2, Apeiron and Tule Review. She is working on her next chapbook.
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