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 Revolving Door

By Cheryl Snell

 

Her recurring dream:
daughter goes missing. Blonde
rappels down the red mouth
of Mother’s bete noir.

Before that, this: Dad caught
in a revolving door, Mother
forever touching him
through the glass, like a prisoner.

Who knew the stick and stuck of it?
We’re brought up short, top of the Ferris wheel,
perpendicular to everything we hate,
yet we can’t stop laughing.

Mother, sound-proofed with age,
has thickened. They’ll never get her out now.
And us here all grown up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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