Happy Anniversary, Darling

by Mary Hanrahan

In the beginning there was flight,
A clear blue owning the horizon.
And within,
_____a V of geese,
an arrow
determined to head
in the same direction.
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10,950 mornings later,
in our rounded bodies,
in the same sorry chairs,
we settle.
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You ask me; what is thirty years?
A death march?    A life sentence
with a meal plan?
_____Silence.           Long pauses.
I no longer hear the staccato
of words,
___of bullets. So many exit wounds.
You can see right through
me and yet
___I keep patching up
the peepholes.

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Mary Hanrahan holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Counseling. Her most recent work is forthcoming in Sugar House Review, Artful Dodge, Under the Basho, and elsewhere online and in print. You can read more of her work at www.marybhanrahan.com. She tweets@marybhanrahan