The train was persistent. It was due to come through again. In a room shaped like an octagon, the corners of which reminded her of Rome (a place she’d never been) she pretended she, too, was just passing through. Forget the fact that her feet housed the splinters from the floorboards she’d been walking for years.
In a different version it was not a pea but a cocoa bean/you came to us in the night/soaked in cold/trembling with fatigue…
Molly Gaudry is the author of the verse novel, We Take Me Apart (Mud Luscious Press, 2009), and the editor of Tell: An Anthology of Expository Narrative (Flatmancrooked, 2010). She curates Walking Man Gallery, edits Willows Wept Press and Willows Wept Review, is a co-founding editor of Twelve Stories, and is an associate editor for Keyhole Magazine. She writes occasional book reviews for East&West Magazine, and she’s currently tweeting a chapter of her new verse novel, FLORA THE WHORE, every few days on Twitter.
Our neighbors sun themselves indiscriminately.
See the after affects,
the linear contortions as chaise lounges buckle.
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