Meditation 53
by Audrey Gidman
You stay in a place too long you start making
people sick—you get stagnant.
In the active silence she is broken
as a kitchen appliance.
Faucet dripping like slow church bells.
Crumbs in the sink.
Tangled: pressing her nails
into the countertop.
The timer on the stove is God
saying No. Keep moving.
About Author:
Audrey Gidman has been an editor for the Sandy River Review and received her BFA from the University of Maine Farmington. She released a broadside with Foxglove Press in 2015, considers E.E. Cummings and Jack Gilbert her greatest muses, and urges you to read the poetry of Hilda Morley if you have yet to.
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