Winnowed Don't make a pregnant woman peer: lips, fingers gnarled... Uptight with future tantrums, pubescent prospects bait her rousing yell, when babe's crooked finger, cedes a fated squeeze of steeled flint. those bathtub squirt guns litter a grime, and crusty tile. his prison walls shower lime, squeezed bitter on her sliver-cut, painted fingers prepped to visit vestiges of childhood, puerile sprinklers, in the Yard, Court of Weary memories baked into lime-frosted cupcakes, shared by winnowed friends, innate Inmates. She sees, and bites her gnarled, teary lip... uptight.
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Linda Jaye Bonafield has been published in Five Poetry Magazine, Scarlet Leaf Review, and forthcoming in Bluestem Magazine and Panoply. She has two bachelor degrees in Communication-Journalism, and Spanish from The College of Charleston, SC. More of her work is available at: moothalo.wordpress.com
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