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145th Weekly Poetry Contest honorable mention: Accidents & Emergencies

145th Weekly Poetry Contest honorable mention: Accidents & Emergencies

by cartervance

We met in ward light,
hands bandaged from climbing cuts,
scaling places we couldn’t control,
with paper and pens and violin trills:
world seemed so sharp, without graces.


But we spoke like prisoners, batting away
winking sunshine, locked in jabbing
rhythm to see which gave first:
my flat regionalisms, your wordly
cross-splendour.