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.