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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