SHANNON HARDWICK





MID-LAND


When I took you to visit
my childhood horse was almost

ready to die. I thought I wanted to
be a good partner, plant myself

in a window box in a kitchen,
become a stable

place to land. Instead,
I took you to the house

I was broken-into & we stood
too close to each other

at the threshold. You said,
See? I bet it’s smaller

than you remembered
. It was
never going to work; but, oh,

how I jumped over
every excuse, each a fence

in the middle of my rage.





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